Unauthenticated Root Command Injection in Lantronix EDS5000 HTTP RPC Module
CVE-2025-67038 is an OS command injection vulnerability affecting Lantronix EDS5000 firmware version 2.1.0.0R3. The flaw is in the HTTP RPC module, which invokes a shell command to write logs when user authentication fails. In the vulnerable code path, the supplied username is directly concatenated into the shell command without sanitization or safe argument handling. An attacker can place shell metacharacters or additional commands in the username parameter during a failed authentication attempt, causing arbitrary operating system commands to be executed. The injected commands run with root privileges. Multiple sources in the provided content describe the issue as unauthenticated and remotely exploitable via the web interface.
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A root-privilege command injection vulnerability in the Lantronix EDS5000 HTTP RPC module, where failed-login username logging passes unsanitized input into a shell command.
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An unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerability in Lantronix EDS5000 serial-to-IP device servers that allows arbitrary command execution with root privileges, significant for OT environments and confirmed by CISA as exploited in the wild.
A critical unauthenticated root-level command injection vulnerability in Lantronix EDS5000 devices that can allow remote command execution with root privileges and complete device compromise.
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