Web Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
A vulnerability has been identified in the EDR-810, EDR-G902, and EDR-G903 Series, making them vulnerable to the denial-of-service vulnerability. This vulnerability stems from insufficient input validation in the URI, potentially enabling malicious users to trigger the device reboot.
- Published
- Nov 1, 2023
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 37th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-120
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Action score
30
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 7.5
- CNA · Moxa
- 6.5
- 1.0 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| moxa | edr-g903 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:moxa:edr-g903_firmware |
| moxa | edr-g903 | cpe:2.3:h:moxa:edr-g903 |
| moxa | edr-g903-t firmware | cpe:2.3:o:moxa:edr-g903-t_firmware |
| moxa | edr-g903-t | cpe:2.3:h:moxa:edr-g903-t |
| moxa | edr-g902 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:moxa:edr-g902_firmware |
| moxa | edr-g902 | cpe:2.3:h:moxa:edr-g902 |
| moxa | edr-g902-t firmware | cpe:2.3:o:moxa:edr-g902-t_firmware |
| moxa | edr-g902-t | cpe:2.3:h:moxa:edr-g902-t |
| moxa | edr-810-vpn-2gsfp firmware | cpe:2.3:o:moxa:edr-810-vpn-2gsfp_firmware |
| moxa | edr-810-vpn-2gsfp | cpe:2.3:h:moxa:edr-810-vpn-2gsfp |
| moxa | edr-810-vpn-2gsfp-t firmware | cpe:2.3:o:moxa:edr-810-vpn-2gsfp-t_firmware |
| moxa | edr-810-vpn-2gsfp-t | cpe:2.3:h:moxa:edr-810-vpn-2gsfp-t |
and 4 more
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- moxa edr-810-2gsfp firmwarebefore 5.12.29
- moxa edr-810-2gsfp-t firmwarebefore 5.12.29
- moxa edr-810-vpn-2gsfp firmwarebefore 5.12.29
- moxa edr-810-vpn-2gsfp-t firmwarebefore 5.12.29
- moxa edr-g902 firmwarebefore 5.7.21
- moxa edr-g902-t firmwarebefore 5.7.21
- moxa edr-g903 firmwarebefore 5.7.21
- moxa edr-g903-t firmwarebefore 5.7.21
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Moxa). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Moxa EDR G902 Series
- 1.0 and later · up to and including 5.7.20affected
Moxa EDR G903 Series
- 1.0 and later · up to and including 5.7.20affected
Moxa EDR-810 Series
- 1.0 and later · up to and including 5.12.28affected
Same product
moxa: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2020-28144Certain Moxa Inc products are affected by an improper restriction of operations in EDR-G903 Series Firmware Version 5.5 or lower, EDR-G902 S40Plan
- CVE-2016-0879Moxa Secure Router EDR-G903 devices before 3.4.12 do not delete copies of configuration and log files after completing the import function, 31Monitor
- CVE-2016-0878Moxa Secure Router EDR-G903 devices before 3.4.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (cold start) by sending two crafted pi31Monitor
- CVE-2016-0877Memory leak on Moxa Secure Router EDR-G903 devices before 3.4.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) b31Monitor
- CVE-2016-0875Moxa Secure Router EDR-G903 devices before 3.4.12 allow remote attackers to read configuration and log files via a crafted URL.31Monitor
- CVE-2016-0876Moxa Secure Router EDR-G903 devices before 3.4.12 allow remote attackers to discover cleartext passwords by reading a configuration file.30Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Zhiyuan Chenfinder
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-primary
Root cause
When data is copied, the source length is not compared with the size of the destination buffer. Excess data overwrites adjacent memory.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-120 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
char buf[256];memcpy(buf, pkt->data, pkt->len);Fixed
char buf[256];if (pkt->len > sizeof(buf)) { return -EINVAL;}memcpy(buf, pkt->data, pkt->len);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment VariablesCAPEC-10likelihood: High · High
- Overflow BuffersCAPEC-100likelihood: High · Very High
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer OverflowCAPEC-14likelihood: Medium · High
- Filter Failure through Buffer OverflowCAPEC-24likelihood: High · High
- MIME ConversionCAPEC-42likelihood: High · High
- Overflow Binary Resource FileCAPEC-44likelihood: High · Very High
- Buffer Overflow via Symbolic LinksCAPEC-45likelihood: High · High
- Overflow Variables and TagsCAPEC-46likelihood: High · High
ATT&CK techniques
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Noroxi analysis
No Noroxi analysis for this record yet
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.