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NPort IAW5000A-I/O Series Serial Device Servers Vulnerabilities

Published: October 8, 2020

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 product vulnerabilities were identified in Moxa’s NPort IAW5000A-I/O Series Serial Device Servers. In response to this, Moxa has developed related solutions to address these vulnerabilities.

The identified vulnerability types and potential impacts are shown below:

Item Vulnerability Type Impact
1 Session Fixation (CWE-384), BDU-2020-04049, CVE-2020-25198 This vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to a session, and hijack the session by stealing the user’s cookies.
2 Improper Privilege Management
(CWE-269, CWE-266), BDU-2020-04050, CVE-2020-25194		 This vulnerability allows a person with user privileges to perform requests with administrative privileges.
3 Weak Password Requirements
(CWE-521), BDU-2020-04051, CVE-2020-25153		 This vulnerability allows users to use weak passwords.
4 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
(CWE-319), BDU-2020-04052, CVE-2020-25190		 This vulnerability allows the web server to store and transmit the credentials of third-party services in cleartext.
5 Improper Restriction Of Excessive Authentication Attempts (CWE-307), BDU-2020-04053, CVE-2020-25196 This vulnerability allows a person to use brute force to bypass authentication on a SSH/Telnet session.
6 Information Exposure
(CWE-200), BDU-2020-04054, CVE-2020-25192		 This vulnerability allows an attacker to access sensitive information in the built-in web service without proper authorization.

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/nport-iaw5000a-io-serial-device-servers-vulnerabilities