CVE-2020-10277
RVD#2562: Booting from a live image leads to exfiltration of sensible information and privilege escalation
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Physical
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
6.4
RVD#2562: Booting from a live image leads to exfiltration of sensible information and privilege escalation
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
- Record
CVE-2020-10277- CVSS 3.0
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-656
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-2732
6.4
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
- Record
EUVD-2020-2732- CVSS 3.0
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-6635-xfqx-gr6m No score
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can...
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
- Record
GHSA-6635-xfqx-gr6m- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
6.4
There is no mechanism in place to prevent a bad operator to boot from a live OS image, this can lead to extraction of sensible files (such as the shadow file) or privilege escalation by manually adding a new user with sudo privileges on the machine.
- Record
CVE-2020-10277- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H - CVSS 3.0
- 6.4 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 4.6 Medium
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-656
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
- easyrobotics er-flex firmware
- easyrobotics er-lite firmware
- easyrobotics er-one firmware
- easyrobotics er200 firmware
- mobile industrial robots a/s mir100
- mobile-industrial-robots mir1000 firmware
- mobile-industrial-robots mir100 firmware
- mobile-industrial-robots mir200 firmware
- mobile-industrial-robots mir250 firmware
- mobile-industrial-robots mir500 firmware
- uvd-robots uvd firmware
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-10277 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.4) in Easyrobotics Er-flex Firmware, published June 24, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.38%, the 31st percentile. No source names a fixed version.