# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-1257"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-03-07T16:54:21.053Z"
updatedAt: "2025-01-16T21:55:20.265Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-1257"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-1257.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1257"
title: "CVE-2023-1257"
summary: "An attacker with physical access to the affected Moxa UC Series devices can initiate a restart of the device and gain access to its BIOS. Command line options can then be altered, allowing the attacker to access the terminal. From the terminal, the attacker can modify the device’s authentication files to create a new user and gain full access to the system."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"V1.1","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-8580 Series"},{"versions":[{"version":"V1.0 to V1.2","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-8540 Series"},{"versions":[{"version":"V2.2","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-8410A Series"},{"versions":[{"version":"V1.0 to V2.4","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-8200 Series"},{"versions":[{"version":"V1.0 to V1.1","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-8100A-ME-T Series"},{"versions":[{"version":"V1.2","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-8100 Series"},{"versions":[{"version":"V1.2","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-5100 Series"},{"versions":[{"version":"V1.2 to V2.0","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-3100 Series"},{"versions":[{"version":"V1.3 to V1.5","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-2100 Series"},{"versions":[{"version":"V1.3 to V1.5","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"MOXA","product":"UC-2100-W Series"}]

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