CVE-2026-2336
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.
Published:Apr 16, 2026
Last Modified:Aug 12, 2026
EPS:Apr 16, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00202
CVSS Score:8.8
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Microchip
Product
Istax
Microchip
Istax
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
