CVE-2022-45853

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: May 30, 2023
Updated: Jan 10, 2025
Reserved: Nov 23, 2022

Description

The privilege escalation vulnerability in the Zyxel GS1900-8 firmware version

V2.70(AAHH.3) and the GS1900-8HP firmware version V2.70(AAHI.3) could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator privileges to execute some system commands as 'root' on a vulnerable device via SSH.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Zyxel

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GS1900-8HP firmwareZyxel	V2.70(AAHI.3)Affected
GS1900-8 firmwareZyxel	V2.70(AAHH.3)Affected

References

https://www.zyxel.com/global/en/support/security-advisories/zyxel-security-advisory-for-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-gs1900-series-switches

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