Medium severity · published Nov 21, 2023
CVE-2023-5553
During internal Axis Security Development Model (ASDM) threat-modelling, a flaw was found in the protection for device tampering (commonly known as Secure Boot) in AXIS OS making…
6.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
During internal Axis Security Development Model (ASDM) threat-modelling, a flaw was found in the protection for device tampering (commonly known as Secure Boot) in AXIS OS making it vulnerable to a sophisticated attack to bypass this protection. To Axis' knowledge, there are no known exploits of the vulnerability at this time. Axis has released patched AXIS OS versions for the highlighted flaw. Please refer to the Axis security advisory for more information and solution.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AO
Axis OS · Axis
10.8 before 11.7.57 · source: NVD
AO
Axis OS 2022 · Axis
before 10.12.213 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5553
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5553
Vendor Advisory
https://www.axis.com/dam/public/0a/66/25/cve-2023-5553-en-US-417789.pdf
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