CVE-2020-9024 is a critical vulnerability affecting Iteris Vantage Velocity Field Unit devices (versions 2.3.1 and 2.4.2). It stems from world-writable permissions on two critical scripts, /root/cleardata.pl and /root/loadperl.sh, which are executed with root privileges by cron and at boot, respectively. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution with the highest privileges, leading to complete compromise of the device. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with over 10 mentions. Despite this, there is no media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:iteris:vantage_velocity_firmware:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:iteris:vantage_velocity_firmware:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.