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CVE-2023-40146
PoC —CVSS 3.1
9.8 critical
EPSS
1%p72
Published
()
Modified
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the /bin/login functionality of Peplink Smart Reader v1.2.0 (in QEMU). A specially crafted command line argument can lead to a limited-shell escape and elevated capabilities. An attacker can authenticate with hard-coded credentials and execute unblocked default busybox functionality to trigger this vulnerability.
- Vendors
- peplink
- Products
- smart reader firmware
- Weakness
- CWE-77, CWE-798
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H