CVE-2022-36782 Pal Electronics Systems - Pal Gate Authorization Errors
Attackers can bypass authorization to view real-time gate movements and scrape personal data of millions of users via the Pal Gate Android app.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-36782?
CVE-2022-36782 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Pal Gate, published on 13 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Pal Electronics Systems - Pal Gate Authorization Errors. The vulnerability is an authorization problem in PalGate device management android client app. Gates of bulidings and parking lots with a simple button in any smartphone. The API was found after a decompiling and static research using Jadx, and a dynamic analasys using Frida. The attacker can iterate over all the IOT devices to see every entry and exit, on every gate and device all over the world, he can also scrape the server and create a user's DB with full names and phone number of over 2.8 million users, and to see all of the users' movement in and out of gates, even in real time.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-36782?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pal-Es Palgate.
How do I fix CVE-2022-36782?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-36782 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2022-36782 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-36782 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h5qx-55qw-v565.