CVE-2024-28140

Violation of Least Privilege Principle

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Dec 11, 2024
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Mar 5, 2024

Description

The scanner device boots into a kiosk mode by default and opens the Scan2Net interface in a browser window. This browser is run with the permissions of the root user. There are also several other applications running as root user. This can be confirmed by running "ps aux" as the root user and observing the output.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Scan2NetImage Access GmbH	before 7.42Affectedfrom 7.42Not affected

References

https://r.sec-consult.com/imageaccessthird-party-advisory
https://www.imageaccess.de/?page=SupportPortal&lang=enpatch
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Dec/2

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