CVE-2023-40146
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.8epss 1.4%
exploitation probability
1.4%top 28% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Peplink · Smart ReaderReferences
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-2023-40146/47256https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240822-0008/https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1868https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1868