CVE-2026-23759 HIGH

CVE-2026-23759: Perle IOLAN STS/SCS Authenticated Command Injection via 'shell ps'

Vendor Perle Systems
Product IOLAN STS
Weakness CWE-78
Published March 17, 2026
Last update May 14, 2026

CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Perle IOLAN STS/SCS terminal server models with firmware versions prior to 6.0 allow authenticated OS command injection via the restricted shell accessed over Telnet or SSH. The shell 'ps' command does not perform proper argument sanitization and passes user-supplied parameters into an 'sh -c' invocation running as root. An authenticated attacker who can log in to the device can inject shell metacharacters after the 'ps' subcommand to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges, leading to full compromise of the underlying operating system.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 17, 2026 CVE published
May 14, 2026 Record updated