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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Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:microchip:istax:*:*:*:*:*:linux:*:* | |
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cvssV3_1
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Weak webstax_auth Cookie Authentication Allows Privilege Escalation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-331 | |
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cvssV4_0
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Microchip
Published: 2026-04-16T17:02:06.352Z
Updated: 2026-04-16T17:34:39.672Z
Reserved: 2026-02-11T10:30:26.167Z
Link: CVE-2026-2336
Updated: 2026-04-16T17:34:36.932Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-04-16T18:16:44.927
Modified: 2026-08-12T16:19:46.283
Link: CVE-2026-2336
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