🛡️ CVE-2023-39979 — mxsecurity

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-334 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

There is a vulnerability in MXsecurity versions prior to 1.0.1 that can be exploited to bypass authentication. A remote attacker might access the system if the web service authenticator has insufficient random values.  

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2023-39979 is recorded against 1 package.

  • mxsecurity (fixed in 1.1.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 September 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.moxa.com
www.moxa.com

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-334
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-02
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mxsecurity — 1.1.0

Similar Threats

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