Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-5677

Medium

Published: 05 February 2024

Published
05 February 2024
Modified
15 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0007 22.4th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-5677 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Axis M3024-Lve Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 22.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Brandon Rothel from QED Secure Solutions and Sam Hanson of Dragos have found that the VAPIX API tcptest.cgi did not have a sufficient input validation allowing for a possible remote code execution. This flaw can only be exploited after authenticating…

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with an operator- or administrator-privileged service account. The impact of exploiting this vulnerability is lower with operator-privileges compared to administrator-privileges service accounts. Please refer to the Axis security advisory for more information and solution.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

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m3024-lve firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
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m3025-ve firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
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m7014 firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
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m7016 firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
axis
p1214-e firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
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p7214 firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
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p7216 firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
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q7401 firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
axis
q7404 firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
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q7414 firmware
≤ 5.51.7.7
+1 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-78 CWE-94

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

addresses: CWE-94

Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.

addresses: CWE-94

Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.

addresses: CWE-94

Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.

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