CVE-2023-22600 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence

InHand Networks InRouter 302, prior to version IR302 V3.5.56, and InRouter 615, prior to version InRouter6XX-S-V2.3.0.r5542, contain vulnerability CWE-284: Improper Access Control. They allow unauthenticated devices to subscribe to MQTT topics on the same network as the device manager. An unauthorized user who knows of an existing topic name could send and receive messages to and from that topic. This includes the ability to send GET/SET configuration commands, reboot commands, and push firmware updates.

Published Jan 12, 2023Updated Jan 16, 2025Sources: cvelistV5, icscert

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

inhand networks

2 products listed

CVSS base

CRITICAL

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

Yes

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Partial

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

inhand networks

Products (2)

inrouter 302inrouter 615

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Source
10	CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL	—	—	cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

CWE-284

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

T1027.009Obfuscated Files or Information: Embedded Payloads
T1546.004Event Triggered Execution: .bash_profile and .bashrc
T1546.016Event Triggered Execution: Installer Packages

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not rules we have tested.

Search application, proxy, and WAF logs for requests touching /SET.

References

1 on the record

www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-23-012-03
government-resource

Elsewhere on this site

inhand networksevery CVE for this vendor
CWE-284other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.