CVE-2026-12504: Loytec LINX firmware: Improper Authentication in PAM configuration
Loytec · LIP-ME20xC
Vendor fix available · Affected: Loytec LIP-ME20xC · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products8
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Loytec · LIP-ME20xCup to and including 8.4.16
- Loytec · L-INXup to and including 8.4.16
- Loytec · L-GATEup to and including 8.4.16
- Loytec · L-ROCup to and including 8.4.16
- Loytec · L-IOBup to and including 8.4.16
- Loytec · L-DALIup to and including 8.4.16
- Loytec · L-VISup to and including 8.4.16
- Loytec · L-PADup to and including 8.4.16
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