Iboot Pdu4 N20 FirmwareOperating system · Dataprobe

CVE-2022-3183

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2022-12-21
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 1.42.06162022 or later.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Dataprobe iBoot-PDU FW versions prior to 1.42.06162022 contain a vulnerability where a specific function does not sanitize the input provided by the user, which may expose the affected to an OS command injection vulnerability.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-78

User input reaches a shell or system command without being fully separated from the command itself, so an attacker can append their own instructions. Because these run with the application's privileges, it often means full control of the host. The lasting fix is to avoid the shell entirely — call APIs directly and pass arguments as data, never as concatenated strings.

General guidance for the os command injection class — the official description and references above are authoritative for this specific CVE. Want a bespoke review and a reviewed fix? Ask our team →

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Iboot Pdu4 N20 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:< 1.42.06162022
Iboot Pdu4sa N15 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:< 1.42.06162022
Iboot Pdu4a N15 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:< 1.42.06162022
Iboot Pdu4sa N20 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:< 1.42.06162022
Iboot Pdu4a N20 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:< 1.42.06162022
Iboot Pdu8sa N15 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:< 1.42.06162022
Iboot Pdu8a N15 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:< 1.42.06162022
Iboot Pdu8sa 2n15 FirmwareOperating system
Affected:< 1.42.06162022

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 1.42.06162022 or later
Fixed in 1.42.06162022
Vendor patch www.cisa.gov →
Recommended fix High confidence

Firmware version 1.42.06162022 or later

  1. 1. Identify the current firmware version of the Dataprobe iBoot-PDU device through the device web interface or CLI
  2. 2. Navigate to the vendor's official support or download page to obtain firmware version 1.42.06162022 or later
  3. 3. Review the vendor's firmware upgrade instructions for any specific requirements or prerequisites
  4. 4. Back up current device configuration if applicable
  5. 5. Upload and apply the firmware update to the affected iBoot-PDU device
  6. 6. After rebooting, verify the device is running firmware version 1.42.06162022 or later
  7. 7. Validate that the previously vulnerable function now properly sanitizes user input
Caveat Review vendor release notes for any configuration or behavioral changes between versions

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