CVE-2020-10277 RVD#2562: Booting from a live image leads to exfiltration of sensible information and privilege escalation
Attackers with physical access can boot from a live image to extract sensitive files and escalate privileges on MiR100 robots.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-10277?
CVE-2020-10277 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mobile Industrial Robots A/S MiR100, published on 24 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
Weakness: CWE-656
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-10277?
It affects 10 products.
Products include Easyrobotics Er-Flex Firmware, Easyrobotics Er-Lite Firmware, Easyrobotics Er-One Firmware, Easyrobotics Er200 Firmware, Mobile-Industrial-Robots Mir1000 Firmware, Mobile-Industrial-Robots Mir100 Firmware and 4 more.
How do I fix CVE-2020-10277?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-10277 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-10277 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10277 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mobile Industrial Robots A/S MiR100
- CVE-2020-10275 RVD#2565: Weak token generation for the REST API.
- CVE-2020-10276 RVD#2558: Default credentials on SICK PLC allows disabling safety features
- CVE-2020-10280 RVD#2568: Apache server is vulnerable to a DoS
- CVE-2020-10274 RVD#2556: MiR REST API allows for data exfiltration by unauthorized attackers (e.g. indoor maps)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6635-xfqx-gr6m.