CVE-2012-5863

Sinapsi Firmware vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

24.8%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

These Sinapsi devices do not check for special elements in commands sent to the system. By accessing certain pages with administrative privileges that do not require authentication within the device, attackers can execute arbitrary, unexpected, or dangerous commands directly onto the operating system.

Affected vendor

Sinapsitech

Affected product

Sinapsi Firmware

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2012-11-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 24.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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