PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions

The point-of-sale PoS terminals from PAX Technology are impacted by a collection of high-severity vulnerabilities that can be weaponized by threat actors to execute arbitrary code. The STM Cyber R&D team, which reverse engineered the Android-based devices manufactured by the Chinese firm owing to...

CVE-2023-42134

CVE-2023-42134 and CVE-2023-42135 affect PAX Android PoS devices (e.g., A920Pro/A50) and enable local code execution as root via kernel parameter injection in fastboot on affected PayDroid builds before 20230614; CVE-2023-42136 and CVE-2023-42137 enable privilege escalation via shell injection in...