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CVE-2025-1424: Privilege Escalation Through SUID Binary and Developer Mode

8.6 CVSS

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in PocketBook InkPad Color 3 allows attackers to escalate to root privileges if they gain physical access to the device.
This issue affects InkPad Color 3 in version U743k3.6.8.3671.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-1424

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.6

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Problem Types

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Vendor: PocketBook

Product: InkPad Color 3

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 3.51% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: poc

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1424
https://www.redguard.ch/blog/2025/03/04/security-advisory-pocketbook-inkpad-color-3/

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