Vulnerabilites related to Zyxel - GS1900-8HP firmware
CVE-2022-45853 (GCVE-0-2022-45853)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-30 10:02
Modified
2025-01-10 17:32
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
The privilege escalation vulnerability in the Zyxel GS1900-8 firmware version V2.70(AAHH.3) and the GS1900-8HP firmware version V2.70(AAHI.3) could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrator privileges to execute some system commands as 'root' on a vulnerable device via SSH.
Impacted products
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