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CVE-2023-1966

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-1966 is a critical unnecessary privileges vulnerability affecting Illumina Universal Copy Service v1.x and v2.x, found in their DNA sequencing instruments. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code at the operating system level. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, enabling unauthorized changes to settings, configurations, software, or access to sensitive data. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community attention with 14 mentions and 3 media articles, indicating high awareness.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:illumina:iscan_firmware:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:illumina:iscan_firmware:4.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:illumina:iseq_100_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:illumina:miniseq_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:illumina:miseq_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.7
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0092 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

support.illumina.com / downloads/illumina-universal-copy-service-1-0.html
Vendor Advisory
cisa.gov / news-events/ics-medical-advisories/icsma-23-117-01
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource