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CVE-2023-1968: CVE-2023-1968

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-04-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1327

Description

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.

Affected products

• Illumina Iscan Firmware: 4.0.0, 4.0.5
• Illumina Iseq 100 Firmware: all versions
• Illumina Miniseq Firmware: from 2.0
• Illumina Miseq Firmware: from 4.0
• Illumina Miseqdx Firmware: from 4.0.1; 4.0
• Illumina Nextseq 1000 Firmware: 1.4.1
• Illumina Nextseq 2000 Firmware: 1.4.1
• Illumina Nextseq 500 Firmware: 4.0
• Illumina Nextseq 550 Firmware: 4.0
• Illumina Nextseq 550Dx Firmware: from 1.0.0 through 1.3.1; from 1.3.3; 4.0
• Illumina Novaseq 6000 Firmware: through 1.7; 1.8

References

• https://support.illumina.com/downloads/illumina-universal-copy-service-1-0.html
• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-medical-advisories/icsma-23-117-01
• https://support.illumina.com/downloads/illumina-universal-copy-service-1-0.html
• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-medical-advisories/icsma-23-117-01

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