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CVE-2026-12504

8.4 highEPSS 0.2%

High (8.4). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper Authentication (CWE-287) in the PAM configuration in Loytec LIP-ME201C, L-INX, L-GATE, L-ROC, L-IOB, L-DALI, L-VIS and L-PAD through 8.4.16 on LINX-A64 allows a local attacker to authenticate as a uid=0 account without a password and obtain a root shell via an `/etc/passwd` entry with an empty password field.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.4 high
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-287, CWE-521
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

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