CVE-2026-12504

published 2026-07-24

CVE-2026-12504: 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…

Priority P3 44 high 8.4 CVSS 4.0

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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

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
loytec	l-dali	<= 8.4.16	—
loytec	l-gate	<= 8.4.16	—
loytec	l-inx	<= 8.4.16	—
loytec	l-iob	<= 8.4.16	—
loytec	l-pad	<= 8.4.16	—
loytec	l-roc	<= 8.4.16	—
loytec	l-vis	<= 8.4.16	—
loytec	lip-me20xc	<= 8.4.16	—

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CWE-287 CWE-521