CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-2336

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Microchip IStaX allows an authenticated low-privileged user to recover a shared per-device cookie secret and forge a new cookie with administrative privileges. This affects versions before 2026.03.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could gain full control over the device, potentially compromising data integrity and confidentiality.

Recommendation

Immediately update to version 2026.03 or later and restrict access to the administrative interface.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Microchip IStaX allows an authenticated low-privileged user to recover a shared per-device cookie secret from their own webstax_auth session cookie and forge a new cookie with administrative privileges.This issue affects IStaX before 2026.03.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS