{"id":"CVE-2026-2336","title":"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 privil…","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 privil…","severity":"high","cvss":8.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-331"],"vendor":"microchip","product":"istax","affected":["istax < 2026.03"],"patched":["istax 2026.03"],"published":"2026-04-16","updated":"2026-08-12","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-2336","references":[{"url":"https://www.microchip.com/en-us/solutions/technologies/embedded-security/how-to-report-potential-product-security-vulnerabilities/istax-privilege-escalation-via-weak-cookie-authentication","label":"dc3f6da9-85b5-4a73-84a2-2ec90b40fca5"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00232,"epssPercentile":0.14358,"ingestedAt":"2026-08-13T13:03:06.127Z","slug":"CVE-2026-2336","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `istax < 2026.03`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `istax 2026.03`","depth":"twilight","depthScore":48,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":48.4,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}