CVE-2026-2336 (GCVE-0-2026-2336)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-16 17:02 – Updated: 2026-04-16 17:34
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Title
Weak webstax_auth Cookie Authentication Allows Privilege Escalation
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.
Severity ?
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
CWE
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microchip IStaX Affected: 0 , < 2026.03 (custom)
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Date Public ?
2026-04-14 00:00
Credits
Rickard Jonsson
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