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The missing authentication tag on WindowsForum.com covers vulnerabilities where critical functions lack proper authentication, allowing unauthorized access. Recent discussions highlight CISA advisories for industrial and enterprise systems, including MOMA Seismic Station firmware (CVE-2026-1632), KiloView Encoders (CVE-2026-1453), and Rockwell Automation CompactLogix 5480 (CVE-2025-9160), which expose web interfaces or maintenance menus without authentication, enabling remote or physical attacks. Also covered is Microsoft SQL Server CVE-2026-20803, where missing authentication on a critical function allows authorized attackers to elevate privileges. These threads focus on security advisories, CVSS scores, and mitigation strategies for missing authentication flaws in both IT and OT environments.
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    CISA warns unauthenticated UI in MOMA Seismic Station firmware CVE-2026-1632

    CISA has published an industrial control systems advisory warning that RISS SRL’s MOMA Seismic Station firmware up to and including v2.4.2520 (CVE‑2026‑1632) exposes its web management interface without requiring authentication — a design failing that permits unauthenticated remote actors to...
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    CISA Warns Kiloview Encoders Pose Critical Admin Takeover Risk CVE-2026-1453

    A high-severity advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that multiple models in the KiloView Encoder Series contain a missing authentication for a critical function vulnerability (tracked as CVE‑2026‑1453 in the advisory) that — if successfully...
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    • cisa advisory kiloview encoders missing authentication security hardening
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    SQL Server CVE-2026-20803: Mitigating Missing Authentication Elevation of Privilege

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2026-20803 as a Microsoft SQL Server elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability caused by missing authentication for a critical function, and the vendor’s advisory states that an authorized attacker who can send SQL requests to an affected instance may be...
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    CISA Advisory: Missing Authentication in CompactLogix 5480 (CVE-2025-9160)

    A newly republished advisory from CISA and Rockwell Automation raises urgent operational and security flags for organizations using the CompactLogix® 5480 controller family: the devices running specific Windows packages are affected by a Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability...
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