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2 vulnerabilities found for A920 by PAX Technology

CVE-2023-4818 (GCVE-0-2023-4818)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2024-01-15 13:28 – Updated: 2025-06-17 13:36
VLAI?
Summary
PAX A920 device allows to downgrade bootloader due to a bug in its version check. The signature is correctly checked and only bootloader signed by PAX can be used.  The attacker must have physical USB access to the device in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Severity ?
7.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-74 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
PAX Technology A920 Affected: 0 , < A920_AP_Boot_Release_V5.14 (custom)
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Date Public ?
2024-01-15 11:00
Credits
Hubert Jasudowicz, Adam Kliś and other members of STM Cyber R&D team
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CVE-2023-4818 (GCVE-0-2023-4818)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-15 13:28 – Updated: 2025-06-17 13:36
VLAI?
Summary
PAX A920 device allows to downgrade bootloader due to a bug in its version check. The signature is correctly checked and only bootloader signed by PAX can be used.  The attacker must have physical USB access to the device in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Severity ?
7.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-74 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Assigner
References
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PAX Technology A920 Affected: 0 , < A920_AP_Boot_Release_V5.14 (custom)
Create a notification for this product.
Date Public ?
2024-01-15 11:00
Credits
Hubert Jasudowicz, Adam Kliś and other members of STM Cyber R&D team
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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