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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-16T17:02:06.352Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-16T17:34:39.672Z

Source :

Microchip
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-2336 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Microchip
  • Istax
REFERENCES

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URL Resource
https://www.microchip.com/en-us/solutions/technologies/embedded-security/how-to-report-potential-product-security-vulnerabilities/istax-privilege-escalation-via-weak-cookie-authentication cve-icon cve-icon
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CVSS Vulnerability Scoring System

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Privileges Required
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