🛡️ CVE-2023-40146
🟡 CVSS 6.8 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-77 NVD
6.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the /bin/login functionality of Peplink Smart Reader v1.2.0 (in QEMU). A specially crafted command line argument can lead to a limited-shell escape and elevated capabilities. An attacker can authenticate with hard-coded credentials and execute unblocked default busybox functionality to trigger this vulnerability.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-77
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-04-17
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
smart-reader-firmware

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