CVE-2026-2336
Privilege Escalation in Microchip IStaX via Cookie Forgery
Publication date: 2026-04-16
Last updated on: 2026-04-16
Assigner: Microchip Technology
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| microchip | istax | to 2026.03 (exc) |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-331 | The product uses an algorithm or scheme that produces insufficient entropy, leaving patterns or clusters of values that are more likely to occur than others. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a privilege escalation issue in Microchip IStaX software versions before 2026.03. It allows an authenticated user with low privileges to extract a shared per-device cookie secret from their own webstax_auth session cookie. Using this secret, the attacker can forge a new cookie that grants them administrative privileges.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The vulnerability can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to escalate their privileges to administrative level. This means the attacker could gain unauthorized administrative access to the system, potentially leading to unauthorized actions, data exposure, or control over the affected device.