CVE-2018-14533 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Inteno IOPSYS and IOPSYS firmware, where authenticated attackers can gain elevated privileges by writing to /tmp/etc/smb.conf due to /var being a symlink to /tmp. It carries a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a low attack complexity and the potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and there is some community discussion, including a Reddit post detailing a root shell exploit.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:intenogroup:iopsys_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
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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.