{"id":225179,"date":"2026-03-18T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/9-critical-ip-kvm-flaws-enable-unauthenticated-root-access-across-four-vendors\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:00:13","slug":"9-critical-ip-kvm-flaws-enable-unauthenticated-root-access-across-four-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/9-critical-ip-kvm-flaws-enable-unauthenticated-root-access-across-four-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Critical IP KVM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Root Access Across Four Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/9-critical-ip-kvm-flaws-enable.html\">9 Critical IP KVM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Root Access Across Four Vendors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/9-critical-ip-kvm-flaws-enable.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/9-critical-ip-kvm-flaws-enable.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-18 07:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\">\ue804<span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span>\ue802<span class=\"author\">Mar 18, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Network Security \/ Vulnerability<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have warned about the risks posed by low-cost IP KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse over Internet Protocol) devices, which can grant attackers extensive control over compromised hosts.<\/p>\n<p>The nine vulnerabilities, discovered by Eclypsium, span four different products from GL-iNet Comet RM-1, Angeet\/Yeeso ES3 KVM, Sipeed NanoKVM, and JetKVM. The most severe of them allow unauthenticated actors to gain root access or run malicious code.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The common themes are damning: missing firmware signature validation, no brute-force protection, broken access controls, and exposed debug interfaces,&#8221; researchers Paul Asadoorian and Reynaldo Vasquez Garcia said in an analysis.<\/p>\n<p>With IP KVM devices enabling remote access to the target machine&#8217;s keyboard, video output, and mouse input at the BIOS\/UEFI level, successful exploitation of vulnerabilities in these products can expose systems to potential takeover risks, undermining security controls put in place. The list of shortcomings is as follows &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CVE-2026-32290<\/strong> (CVSS score: 4.2) &#8211; An insufficient verification of firmware authenticity in GL-iNet Comet KVM (Fix being planned)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2026-32291<\/strong> (CVSS score: 7.6) &#8211; A Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART) root access vulnerability in GL-iNet Comet KVM (Fix being planned)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2026-32292<\/strong> (CVSS score: 5.3) &#8211; An insufficient brute-force protection vulnerability in GL-iNet Comet KVM (Fixed in version 1.8.1 BETA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2026-32293<\/strong> (CVSS score: 3.1) &#8211; An insecure initial provisioning via unauthenticated cloud connection vulnerability in GL-iNet Comet KVM (Fixed in version 1.8.1 BETA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2026-32294<\/strong> (CVSS score: 6.7) &#8211; An insufficient update verification vulnerability in JetKVM (Fixed in version 0.5.4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2026-32295<\/strong> (CVSS score: 7.3) &#8211; An insufficient rate limiting vulnerability in JetKVM (Fixed in version 0.5.4)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2026-32296<\/strong> (CVSS score: 5.4) &#8211; A configuration endpoint exposure vulnerability in&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/9-critical-ip-kvm-flaws-enable.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 Critical IP KVM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Root Access Across Four Vendors https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/9-critical-ip-kvm-flaws-enable.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1w0kzOmqTtztN-mHI2uI1lo8OnX3r0r6sB1FuwEKJAIX3zudBP_BkZiFk5f3RbtXjTiARWWhhKkLp2szjQk5-IVk_sOHkyGlIAof66_UIY595IhcdGZQR2xjTHKQSqWAV0bkjCPlfqBdJqokmSkZID1kQxcI8M-LX2aWSDErd63Y86_UTo321Fm45dcDC\/s1600\/ip.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,29,27],"class_list":["post-225179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-network-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225181,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225179\/revisions\/225181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}