CVE-2024-9138
Privilege Escalation in Cellular Router, Secure Router, and Network Security Appliances
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Moxa
Description
Moxa’s cellular routers, secure routers, and network security appliances are affected by a high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2024-9138. This vulnerability involves hard-coded credentials, enabling an authenticated user to escalate privileges and gain root-level access to the system, posing a significant security risk.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| MoxaCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| MoxaCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 33% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 5.12.37
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 3.13.1
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 5.7.25
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 5.7.25
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 3.13.1
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 3.13.1
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 3.13.1
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 1.0.5
Moxa · OnCell G4302-LTE4 Series
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 3.13
- affected 1.0 – ≤ 3.13
What to do
Solution: Moxa has developed appropriate solutions to address vulnerability. The solutions for the affected products are listed below. * EDR-810 Series: Upgrade to the firmware version 3.14 https://www.moxa.com/en/products/industrial-network-infrastructure/secure-routers/secure-routers/edr-810-series#resources or later * EDR-8010 Series: Upgrade to the firmware version 3.14 https://www.moxa.com/en/products/industrial-network-infrastructure/secure-routers/secure-routers/edr-8010-series#resources or later * EDR-G902 Series: Upgrade to the firmware version 3.14 https://www.moxa.com/en/products/industrial-network-infrastructure/secure-routers/secure-routers/edr-g902-series#resources or later * EDR-G903 Series: Upgrade to the firmware version 3.14 https://www.moxa.com/en/products/industrial-network-infrastructure/secure-routers/secure-routers/edr-g903-series#resources or later * EDR-G9004 Series: Upgrade to the firmware version 3.14 https://www.moxa.com/en/products/industrial-network-infrastructure/secure-routers/secure-routers/edr-g9004-series#resources or later * EDR-G9010 Series: Upgrade to the firmware version 3.14 https://www.moxa.com/en/products/industrial-network-infrastructure/secure-routers/secure-routers/edr-g9010-series#resources or later * EDF-G1002-BP Series: Upgrade to the firmware version 3.14 https://www.moxa.com/en/products/industrial-network-infrastructure/network-security-appliance/edf-g1002-bp-series#resources or later * NAT-102 Series: An official patch or firmware update is not currently available for this product. Please refer to the Mitigations section below for recommended measures to address the vulnerability. * OnCell G4302-LTE4 Series: Please contact Moxa Technical Support https://www.moxa.com/support/support/technical-support for the security patch * TN-4900 Series: Please contact Moxa Technical Support https://www.moxa.com/support/support/technical-support for the security patch
Workaround: * Minimize network exposure to ensure the device is not accessible from the Internet. * Limit SSH access to trusted IP addresses and networks using firewall rules or TCP wrappers. * Implement IDS or Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to detect and prevent exploitation attempts. These systems can provide an additional layer of defense by monitoring network traffic for signs of attacks.
References (1)
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)
- 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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