Crestron Touchpanels up to 3.003.0015.001 argument injection

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A vulnerability was found in Crestron Touchpanels up to 3.003.0015.001. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation causes argument injection. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-7865. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Crestron Touchpanels up to 3.003.0015.001 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a argument injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-88. The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A hidden console command is vulnerable to command injection flaw when control characters are passed to its second argument.  A third party researcher Eugene Lim had discovered vulnerability in the way console command passes to a popen function call. Attackers with authenticated access to SSH console of Crestron devices may use to run underlying OS commands.

It is possible to read the advisory at crestron.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-7865 since 05/05/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/05/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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• Crestron

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• Touchpanels

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• 3.003.0015.001

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• commercial

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