RVD#2569: Insecure operating system defaults in MiR robots

published 2020-06-24 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-2734

cvss: 10.0; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.0%; EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits: 0; none known

MiR robot controllers (central computation unit) makes use of Ubuntu 16.04.2 an operating system, Thought for desktop uses, this operating system presents insecure defaults for robots. These insecurities include a way for users to escalate their access beyond what they were granted via file creation, access race conditions, insecure home directory configurations and defaults that facilitate Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-21-280-02 updated 2021-10-07 cvss 8.4

Mobile Industrial Robots Vehicles and MiR Fleet Software

Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) MiR Fleet in MiR Fleet Software < 2.10.2.1 Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) MiR100 MiR200 MiR250 MiR500 MiR1000 in MiR Robot Software < 2.10.2.1
affected: mitigation “MiR recommends users upgrade affected products to the latest version. New software versions can be found on the MiR Distributor portal (login required).” mobile-industrial-robots.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

Exploit prediction

0.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	10.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:H
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	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Mobile Industrial Robots A/S MiR100

Classification

Weakness

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

References

github.com /aliasrobotics/RVD/issues/2569
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-10279
NVD CVE-2020-10279

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Summary