Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-1968

Critical

Published: 28 April 2023

Published
28 April 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 10.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0015 34.9th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-1968 is a critical-severity Binding to an Unrestricted IP Address (CWE-1327) vulnerability in Illumina Nextseq 550Dx Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 34.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Instruments with Illumina Universal Copy Service v2.x are vulnerable due to binding to an unrestricted IP address. An unauthenticated malicious actor could use UCS to listen on all IP addresses, including those capable of accepting remote communications.

CWE(s)
CWE-1327NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

illumina
iscan firmware
4.0.0, 4.0.5
illumina
iseq 100 firmware
all versions
illumina
miniseq firmware
≥ 2.0
illumina
miseq firmware
≥ 4.0
illumina
miseqdx firmware
4.0 · ≥ 4.0.1
illumina
nextseq 500 firmware
4.0
illumina
nextseq 550 firmware
4.0
illumina
nextseq 550dx firmware
4.0 · 1.0.0 — 1.3.1 · ≥ 1.3.3
illumina
nextseq 1000 firmware
1.4.1
illumina
nextseq 2000 firmware
1.4.1
+1 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References