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1 vulnerability found for IStaX by Microchip
CVE-2026-2336 (GCVE-0-2026-2336)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-16 17:02
Modified
2026-04-16 17:34
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-331 - Insufficient entropy
Summary
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.
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