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CVE-2023-4818PAX A920 device allows to downgrade bootloader due to a bug in its version check. The signature is correctly checked and only bootloader…
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 0.66%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 48% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
PAX A920 device allows to downgrade bootloader due to a bug in its version check. The signature is correctly checked and only bootloader signed by PAX can be used. The attacker must have physical USB access to the device in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By CERT-PL
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.66% · top 48% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Affected products
- affected < A920_AP_Boot_Release_V5.14
References
References4
- https://ppn.paxengine.com/release/development (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://blog.stmcyber.com/pax-pos-cves-2023/ (opens in a new tab)technical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2024/01/CVE-2023-4818/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- https://cert.pl/posts/2024/01/CVE-2023-4818/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-54661 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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