Vulnerability · Published Aug 18, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-37061
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 99.6% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei.
Official description
All FLIR AX8 thermal sensor cameras version up to and including 1.46.16 are vulnerable to Remote Command Injection. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands as the root user through the id HTTP POST parameter in the res.php endpoint. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the root privileges. NOTE: The vendor has stated that with the introduction of firmware version 1.49.16 (Jan 2023) the FLIR AX8 should no longer be affected by the vulnerability reported. Latest firmware version (as of Oct 2025, was released Jun 2024) is 1.55.16.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.flir.com/products/ax8-automation/
- https://gist.github.com/Nwqda/9e16852ab7827dc62b8e44d6180a6899
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168114/FLIX-AX8-1.46.16-Remote-Command-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168116/FLIR-AX8-1.46.16-Traversal-Access-Control-Command-Injection-XSS.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169701/FLIR-AX8-1.46.16-Remote-Command-Injection.html
- https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2018-5491.php
- https://github.com/WlX-33/PoC-for-CVE/blob/main/CVE-2022-36266/FLIR%20AX8%20Unauthenticated%20OS%20Command%20Injection.py