CVE-2023-42137

7.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.8) in paxtechnology paydroid. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PAX Android based POS devices with PayDroid_8.1.0_Sagittarius_V11.1.50_20230614 or earlier can allow for command execution with high privileges by using malicious symlinks. The attacker must have shell access to the device in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-59
Published: 2024-01-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

paxtechnology:paydroid

References

https://blog.stmcyber.com/pax-pos-cves-2023/
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2024/01/CVE-2023-4818/
https://cert.pl/posts/2024/01/CVE-2023-4818/
https://ppn.paxengine.com/release/development
https://blog.stmcyber.com/pax-pos-cves-2023/

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