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CVE-2023-42137

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

PAX Android based POS devices with PayDroid_8.1.0_Sagittarius_V11.1.50_20230614 or earlier can allow for command execution with high privileges by using malicious symlinks. The attacker must have shell access to the device in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Paxtechnology Paydroid: through 8.1.0_sagittarius_11.1.50_20230614

References

• https://blog.stmcyber.com/pax-pos-cves-2023/
• https://cert.pl/en/posts/2024/01/CVE-2023-4818/
• https://cert.pl/posts/2024/01/CVE-2023-4818/
• https://ppn.paxengine.com/release/development
• https://blog.stmcyber.com/pax-pos-cves-2023/
• https://cert.pl/en/posts/2024/01/CVE-2023-4818/
• https://cert.pl/posts/2024/01/CVE-2023-4818/
• https://ppn.paxengine.com/release/development

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