Linear eMerge e3-Series Forgot Password Command Injection

published 2024-10-02 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-49940

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 53.5%; EPSS 53.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits: 0; none known

The Linear eMerge e3-Series through version 1.00-07 is vulnerable to an OS command injection vulnerability. A remote and unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary OS commands via the login_id parameter when invoking the forgot_password functionality over HTTP.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-25-114-04 updated 2025-05-06 cvss 9.8

Nice Linear eMerge E3

Nice Linear eMerge E3 <=1.00-07
affected: mitigation “Nice did not indicate if/when a patch would be developed. Please see Nice's E3-Bulletin for the latest information on product security.” 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: Proof of concept is public
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-10-02)

Exploit prediction

53.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

ssd-disclosure.com https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory-nortek-linear-emerge-e3-pre-auth-rce/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

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

Affected products

Linear eMerge e3-Series
nortekcontrol emerge_e3_firmware

Classification

Weakness

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

ssd-disclosure.com /ssd-advisory-nortek-linear-emerge-e3-pre-auth-rce/
vendor-advisory, exploit
vulncheck.com /advisories/linear-emerge-forgot-password
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-9441
NVD CVE-2024-9441

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Summary