CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-40146
Critical (9.8) in peplink smart reader firmware. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-798, CWE-77
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- peplink:smart_reader_firmware
References
- https://forum.peplink.com/t/peplink-security-advisory-smart-reader-firmware-1-2-0-cve-2023-43491-cve-2023-45209-cve-2023-39367-cve-2023-45744-cve-2023-40146/47256
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1868
- https://forum.peplink.com/t/peplink-security-advisory-smart-reader-firmware-1-2-0-cve-2023-43491-cve-2023-45209-cve-2023-39367-cve-2023-45744-cve-2023-40146/47256
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240822-0008/
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1868