A vulnerability was found in Alias Robotics MiR100, MiR200, MiR250, MiR500, MiR1000, ER200, ER-Lite, ER-Flex, ER-One and UVD. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Live Image Boot Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a reliance on security through obscurity vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-656. The product uses a protection mechanism whose strength depends heavily on its obscurity, such that knowledge of its algorithms or key data is sufficient to defeat the mechanism. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.

The weakness was published 06/24/2020 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-10277 since 03/10/2020. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entries are available at 157203, 157202, 157201 and 157199.

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• Alias Robotics

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• ER-Flex
• ER-Lite
• ER-One
• ER200
• MiR100
• MiR200
• MiR250
• MiR500
• MiR1000
• UVD

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