Moxa IKS and EDS fails to properly validate user input, giving unauthenticated and authenticated attackers the ability to perform XSS attac…

published 2019-03-05 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-16124

cvss: 6.1; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits: 0; none known

Moxa IKS and EDS fails to properly validate user input, giving unauthenticated and authenticated attackers the ability to perform XSS attacks, which may be used to send a malicious script.

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-19-057-01 updated 2019-10-24 cvss 9.6

Moxa IKS, EDS (Update A)

Moxa EDS-405A series <= 3.8 Moxa EDS-408A series <= 3.8 Moxa EDS-510A series <= 3.8 Moxa IKS-G6824A series <= 5.6
affected: mitigation “Install firmware patch. Patches may be requested from Moxa Customer Service (login required):” moxa.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

ICS-CERT Moxa IKS, EDS

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-19-057-01
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
securityfocus.com /bid/107178
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-6565
NVD CVE-2019-6565

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