NPort W2150A/NPort W2250A Serial Device Servers Vulnerabilities

Published: December 13, 2018

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 NPort W2150A and NPort W2250A 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 Authenticated OS Command Injection (CVE-2018-19659) Web server ping function can allow users with administrative privileges to circumvent the Linux operating system's user access controls.
2 Authenticated OS Command Injection (CVE-2018-19660) Web server WLAN profile properties function can allow users with administrative privileges to circumvent the Linux operating system's user access controls.

 

This alert has come from: https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/nport-w2150a-nport-w2250a-serial-device-servers-vulnerabilities