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Multiple Moxa Product Series Affected by Linux Kernel Memory Double Free Vulnerability

Published: July 10, 2024

This Alert Is From MOXA

As Industrial IoT (IIoT) adoption continues to proliferate, cybersecurity has become one of the top priorities. The Moxa Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) takes a proactive approach to protect products from cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Moxa PSIRT investigates all reports of vulnerabilities that could potentially affect Moxa products. Moxa created a vulnerability management policy to provide guidance and information to our customers in the event of a reported vulnerability. The management policy ensures that Moxa’s customers have steady, unambiguous resources to help them understand how Moxa resolves or mitigates reported vulnerabilities. For any queries, please email [email protected].

Multiple Moxa product series are affected by the Linux kernel memory double free vulnerability. A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component could be exploited to achieve a system crash and local privilege escalation.

The identified vulnerability types and potential impacts are shown below:

Item Vulnerability Type Impact
1

Use After Free (CWE-416)

CVE-2024-1086

 An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to achieve local privilege escalation or cause a system crash

Vulnerability Scoring Details 

ID
CVSS
Vector
Unauthenticated Remote Exploit
CVE-2024-1086

7.8

 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H No

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/mpsa-249807-multiple-moxa-product-series-affected-by-linux-kernel-memory-double-free-vulnerability