CVE-2020-10279

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

MiR robot controllers (central computation unit) makes use of Ubuntu 16.04.2 an operating system, Thought for desktop uses, this operating system presents insecure defaults for robots. These insecurities include a way for users to escalate their access beyond what they were granted via file creation, access race conditions, insecure home directory configurations and defaults that facilitate Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-276CWE-362CWE-1188

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jun 24, 2020
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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