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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-7265 in the critical feed json

Linear eMerge E3-Series devices allow Remote Code Execution (root access over SSH).

published 2019-07-02 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-16809

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
23.1%
EPSS 23.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Linear eMerge E3-Series devices allow Remote Code Execution (root access over SSH).

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-24-065-01 updated cvss 9.8

Nice Linear eMerge E3-Series

  • Nice Linear eMerge E3-Series <=1.00-06
    affected: mitigation “Nice/Nortek encourages users to upgrade to the latest firmware to mitigate the risk of these vulnerabilities. Please see Nice's E3-Bulletin for more information.” linear-solutions.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-47625)

Exploit prediction

23.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-47625 eMerge E3 Access Controller 4.6.07 - Remote Code Execution remote, 2019-11-12
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155267/Nortek-Linear-eMerge-E3-Access-Controller-1.00-06-SSH-FTP-Remote-Root.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

Sources

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