CISA Warns Critical Lantronix EDS5000 Flaw Is Being Actively Exploited
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation of a critical security flaw impacting Lantronix EDS5000 Series devices, urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June 26, 2026.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-67038 (CVSS score: 9.8), a code injection flaw that could result in the execution of arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.
"The HTTP RPC module executes a shell command to write logs when the user's authentication fails," according to the vulnerability's description on CVE.org. "The username is directly concatenated with the command without any sanitization. This allows attackers to inject arbitrary OS commands into the username parameter. Injected commands are executed with root privileges."
The security flaw was disclosed by Forescout Research Vedere Labs in April 2026 as part of a broader set of vulnerabilities collectively codenamed BRIDGE:BREAK that impacted serial-to-IP converters from Lantronix and Silex. There are currently no details on how the vulnerability is being exploited, or who is making the effort.
The disclosure comes as CISA also confirmed active exploitation of three maximum-severity security defects in Ubiquity UniFi OS, days after Defused Cyber said it detected in-the-wild abuse of the remote code execution chain comprising CVE-2026-34908, CVE-2026-34909, and CVE-2026-34910 to deploy commodity malware.
- CVE-2026-34908 - An improper input validation vulnerability that could allow a malicious actor with access to the network to conduct command injection
- CVE-2026-34909 - A path traversal vulnerability that could allow a malicious actor with access to the network to access files on the underlying system that could be manipulated to access an underlying account.
- CVE-2026-34910 - An improper access control vulnerability that could allow a malicious actor with access to the network to make unauthorized changes to the system.
Earlier this month, Bishop Fox detailed a proof-of-concept (PoC) that chains together the three shortcomings to obtain a reverse shell with full root privileges in a single request. Patches for the flaws were released by Ubiquiti late last month.
"The vulnerabilities could allow remote attackers to make unauthorized system changes, access sensitive files, disclose information, or execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable systems, highly impacting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of targeted devices," Belgium's Centre for Cybersecurity said.
"Given that UniFi OS devices are often centrally integrated into networks, successful compromise could enable lateral movement and broader network compromise."
source: TheHackerNews
