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NPort IAW5000A-I/O Series Hardcoded Credential Vulnerability

Published: August 16, 2023

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].

CVE-2023-4204 

A vulnerability has been identified in NPort IAW5000A-I/O Series firmware versions prior to v2.2, which poses a potential risk to the security and integrity of the affected device. 

The identified vulnerability types and potential effects are shown below: 

Item Vulnerability Type Impact
1
Use of hardcoded credentials 
(CWE-798) 
This vulnerability is attributed to the presence of a hardcoded key, which could potentially facilitate firmware manipulation. 

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/mpsa-230304-nport-iaw5000a-i-o-series-hardcoded-credential-vulnerability