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MXview Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published: May 3, 2022

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].

A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability since MXview v3.0 allows attackers with local privilege to gain system privilege and execute arbitrary code via a crafted module.

The identified vulnerability types and potential impacts are shown below:

Item Vulnerability Type Impact
1 Improper Control of Generation of
Code (CWE-94)		 Attackers with local privilege could gain system privilege
to execute arbitrary code via a crafted module.

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/mxview-privilege-escalation-vulnerability