{"id":234142,"date":"2026-04-21T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/22-bridgebreak-flaws-expose-thousands-of-lantronix-and-silex-serial-to-ip-converters\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:05:11","slug":"22-bridgebreak-flaws-expose-thousands-of-lantronix-and-silex-serial-to-ip-converters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/22-bridgebreak-flaws-expose-thousands-of-lantronix-and-silex-serial-to-ip-converters\/","title":{"rendered":"22 BRIDGE:BREAK Flaws Expose Thousands of Lantronix and Silex Serial-to-IP Converters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/22-bridgebreak-flaws-expose-20000.html\">22 BRIDGE:BREAK Flaws Expose Thousands of Lantronix and Silex Serial-to-IP Converters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/22-bridgebreak-flaws-expose-20000.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/22-bridgebreak-flaws-expose-20000.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 11:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\">\ue804<span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span>\ue802<span class=\"author\">Apr 21, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Network Security \/ Vulnerability<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have identified 22 new vulnerabilities in popular models of serial-to-IP converters from Lantronix and Silex that could be exploited to hijack susceptible devices and tamper with data exchanged by them.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities have been collectively codenamed <strong>BRIDGE:BREAK<\/strong> by Forescout Research Vedere Labs, which identified nearly 20,000 Serial-to-Ethernet converters exposed online globally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of these vulnerabilities allow attackers to take full control of mission-critical devices connected via serial links,&#8221; the cybersecurity company said in a report shared with The Hacker News.<\/p>\n<p>Serial-to-IP converters are hardware devices that enable users to remotely access, control, and manage any serial device over an IP network or the internet by &#8220;bridging&#8221; legacy applications and industrial control systems (ICS) that operate over TCP\/IP.<\/p>\n<p>At a high level, as many as eight security flaws have been discovered in Lantronix products (EDS3000PS Series and EDS5000 Series) and 14 in Silex SD330-AC. These shortcomings fall under the following broad categories &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remote code execution &#8211; CVE-2026-32955, CVE-2026-32956, CVE-2026-32961, CVE-2025-67041, CVE-2025-67034, CVE-2025-67035, CVE-2025-67036, CVE-2025-67037, and CVE-2025-67038<\/li>\n<li>Client-side code execution &#8211; CVE-2026-32963<\/li>\n<li>Denial-of-service (DoS) &#8211; CVE-2026-32961, CVE-2015-5621, CVE-2024-24487<\/li>\n<li>Authentication bypass &#8211; CVE-2026-32960, CVE-2025-67039<\/li>\n<li>Device takeover &#8211; FSCT-2025-0021 (no CVE assigned), CVE-2026-32965, CVE-2025-70082<\/li>\n<li>Firmware tampering &#8211; CVE-2026-32958<\/li>\n<li>Configuration tampering &#8211; CVE-2026-32962, CVE-2026-32964<\/li>\n<li>Information disclosure &#8211; CVE-2026-32959<\/li>\n<li>Arbitrary file upload &#8211; CVE-2026-32957<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"755\" data-original-width=\"1647\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgZ3ueSHPp8dDVVGvl9HCprnKbS4Suqtd0yORXomBk0NOrwC_9Km3mekHIT7KBceB7jJOKJBWbdT2v3vfneeffl0BHjw9zFfAPgj_Xs6FWLP99eYIsuaFl55fV0DBuDpi37Fk5Ggs5bdBvmVSKmOEqQKcRQKkgxdgIG98Gh8kRrrtKCF4jqJDxPd1pn0t5w\/s1600\/attacks.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Successful exploitation of the aforementioned flaws could allow attackers to disrupt serial communications with field assets, conduct lateral movement, and tamper with sensor values or modify actuator behavior.<\/p>\n<p>In a hypothetical attack&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/22-bridgebreak-flaws-expose-20000.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 BRIDGE:BREAK Flaws Expose Thousands of Lantronix and Silex Serial-to-IP Converters https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/22-bridgebreak-flaws-expose-20000.html Publish Date: 2026-04-21&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEguDEDMst3MIdrJaNrbo9p_7mjaF2nB_5UuQZR2JhNRNPw8h619BhPWYUZ0yYD-ix_jIluuAwjip4ho4huSuYqr4lXcperdn-4_tFKZ6yivKeOuDJd9O-1EDiwIvD1sPwRGL6keOFr5muqqXp2GWdOlpmi9_uQyREP_iiEz0ZoX-W4ACBSxYarYPb4CJTIY\/s1600\/hardware.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,35,29,27],"class_list":["post-234142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacker","tag-network-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234144,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234142\/revisions\/234144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}