# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Jun 2020
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6635-xfqx-gr6m

## 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 (Reliance on Security Through Obscurity)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-10277?

It affects 10 products.


Products: 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, Mobile-Industrial-Robots Mir200 Firmware, Mobile-Industrial-Robots Mir250 Firmware, Mobile-Industrial-Robots Mir500 Firmware, Uvd-Robots Uvd Firmware.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10275/): RVD#2565: Weak token generation for the REST API. (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-10276](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10276/): RVD#2558: Default credentials on SICK PLC allows disabling safety features (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-10280](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10280/): RVD#2568: Apache server is vulnerable to a DoS (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2020-10274](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10274/): RVD#2556: MiR REST API allows for data exfiltration by unauthorized attackers (e.g. indoor maps) (high 7.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-10277 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10277 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Mobile Industrial Robots A/S MiR100. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10277/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10277/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10277
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10277
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10277

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10277/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.