Cognex 3D-A1000 Dimensioning System Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The Cognex 3D-A1000 Dimensioning System in firmware version 1.0.3 (3354) and prior is vulnerable to CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function, which allows unauthorized users to change the operator account password via webserver commands by monitoring web socket communications from an unauthenticated session. This could allow an attacker to escalate privileges to match those of the compromised account.