International Datacasting SFX2100 Satellite Receiver /sbin/ip privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in International Datacasting SFX2100 Satellite Receiver. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /sbin/ip. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-29121. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in International Datacasting SFX2100 Satellite Receiver (affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the file /sbin/ip. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

International Data Casting (IDC) SFX2100 satellite receiver comes with the `/sbin/ip` utility installed with the setuid bit set. This configuration grants elevated privileges to any local user who can execute the binary. A local actor is able to use the GTFObins resource to preform privileged file reads as the root user on the local file system and may potentially lead to other avenues for preforming privileged actions.

The weakness was published by Abdul Mhanni. The advisory is shared for download at abdulmhsblog.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-29121 since 03/04/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Timelineinfo

03/04/2026 CVE reserved
03/05/2026 +1 days Advisory disclosed
03/05/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
03/11/2026 +6 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: abdulmhsblog.com
Researcher: Abdul Mhanni
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2026-29121 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-29121
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-348860

Entryinfo

Created: 03/05/2026 02:45
Updated: 03/11/2026 20:49
Changes: 03/05/2026 02:45 (67), 03/05/2026 03:02 (1), 03/05/2026 03:58 (3), 03/11/2026 20:49 (12)
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