CVE-2024-28140

Violation of Least Privilege Principle

Published Dec 11, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 6.1 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The scanner device boots into a kiosk mode by default and opens the Scan2Net interface in a browser window. This browser is run with the permissions of the root user. There are also several other applications running as root user. This can be confirmed by running "ps aux" as the root user and observing the output.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

The vendor provides a firmware update to version 7.42 (or higher) which can be downloaded via the vendor's customer server portal.

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The scanner device boots into a kiosk mode by default and opens the Scan2Net interface in a browser window. This browser is run with the permissions of the root user. There are also several other applications running as root user. This can be confirmed by running "ps aux" as the root user and observing the output.
Title Violation of Least Privilege Principle
Weaknesses CWE-250
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
SEC-VLab
Published
Updated
Nov 3, 2025, 9:54 PM
Reserved
Mar 5, 2024, 9:15 AM
Status
Deferred
Published
Dec 11, 2024, 4:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:21 AM