Nexo OsOperating system · Bosch

CVE-2023-48250

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2024-01-10
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to after 1500-sp2 or later.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

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
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to authenticate to the web application with high privileges through multiple hidden hard-coded accounts.

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 · moderate confidence

A remote attacker can authenticate to the web application using multiple hidden hard-coded backdoor accounts that grant high privileges. This is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability where credentials are embedded directly in the application code.

MitigationRemove all hard-coded accounts from the source code, implement proper credential management, and rotate any credentials that may have been exposed.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

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
Nexo OsOperating system
Affected:>= 1000, <= 1500-sp2

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

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify the installed Bosch Nexo Os version
    Access the system administration interface or use the product's built-in version check command to retrieve the exact version number
    Affected if The version falls within the range 1000 to 1500-sp2 inclusive
  2. Locate the web application source code
    Navigate to the application installation directory and identify the source files for the web application component
    Affected if Source code is present and accessible for inspection
  3. Search for hard-coded credentials in application code
    Use grep or a text search tool to scan source files for suspicious hard-coded username/password pairs, looking for embedded credentials that are not referenced from external configuration
    Affected if Hard-coded credentials are found directly embedded in the code
  4. Check for undocumented administrator accounts
    Review the application's user database or account configuration files for accounts that do not correspond to legitimate organizational users
    Affected if Hidden or undocumented accounts with elevated privileges exist in the system
  5. Verify the web authentication mechanism
    Examine the authentication module code to confirm whether it allows login with credentials derived from hard-coded values in the source
    Affected if The authentication logic contains or references embedded credentials for login purposes

A defender is affected if they are running Bosch Nexo Os versions 1000 through 1500-sp2 and the application contains hard-coded backdoor credentials that allow unauthorized privileged access.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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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.

From vendor data
Upgrade available Upgrade to a release after 1500-sp2
Interim mitigation

Remove all hard-coded accounts from the source code, implement proper credential management, and rotate any credentials that may have been exposed.

Fix this in Nexo Os Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation6.0 h
  • Implementation12.0 h
  • Testing8.0 h
  • Review / QA6.0 h
32.0 hours of engineering $5,640
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

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