CVE•Published 2026-04-16•Modified 2026-08-12•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-2336Microchip · Istax
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
10
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 90% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
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.
Timeline
Published 2026-04-16
Modified 2026-08-12
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2026-2336Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Microchip Istax"All exposed Microchip Istax instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Istax"HTTP body or banner mentions "Istax" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-2336Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-2336Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-2336Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-2336GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-2336" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (5)
CVE-2026-23365 repos
hiifong/starListPython
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hugefiver/mystarsunknown
dick318/awesome-starsunknown
oslook/n8n-workflowsunknown
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jooray/CLN-incident-audit-202608unknown
Ten AI models audited Core Lightning during the v26.06.7 embargo. Full write-up, the model reports, and OpenTimestamps proofs sealed in Bitcoin before the source was published.