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Plain-English summary
CVE-2026-0781 affects the ALGO 8180 IP Audio Alerter web interface. A logged-in attacker with high privileges could make the device run unintended operating-system commands. For organizations using these devices for alerting or paging, compromise could affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the device.
Executive priority
Prioritize remediation for environments where ALGO 8180 devices support safety, paging, or operational alerting. The vulnerability needs privileged access, but successful exploitation could fully compromise an affected device.
Technical view
The flaw is command injection, CWE-78, in the web-based UI of ALGO 8180 IP Audio Alerter version 5.5. The issue is improper validation of a user-supplied string before it is used in a system call. CVSS is 7.2, network-accessible, low complexity, no user interaction, but high privileges are required.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to organizations running ALGO 8180 IP Audio Alerter, especially version 5.5, with reachable web management interfaces. Risk is higher if administrative access is broadly shared, weakly protected, or accessible from untrusted networks.
Exploitation context
Authentication is required, and the CVSS vector indicates high privileges are needed. The provided sources do not state active exploitation, public exploit availability, or CISA KEV listing. Treat this primarily as a post-authentication device takeover risk.
Researcher notes
The public record attributes this to ZDI-CAN-28290 and ZDI-26-003. Available details identify the vulnerability class and affected version but do not provide patch status, exploit availability, or detailed vulnerable parameter information in the supplied bundle.
Mitigation direction
- Identify ALGO 8180 IP Audio Alerter devices and firmware versions.
- Check ALGO and ZDI guidance for fixed firmware or vendor mitigations.
- Restrict web UI access to trusted management networks only.
- Review and reduce administrative accounts on affected devices.
- Monitor device configuration changes and unexpected service behavior.
Validation and detection
- Confirm whether any ALGO 8180 devices run version 5.5.
- Verify the web UI is not exposed to untrusted networks.
- Review access control for privileged web UI accounts.
- Check vendor sources for updated firmware or advisories.
- Document compensating controls if no vendor fix is available.
Public sources used
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- High
- CVSS
- 7.2 (3.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H1.25.9Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.0 score
7.2HighVector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- ZDI-26-003CVE reference · x_research-advisory
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