CVE-2020-28044: Pax Prolinos

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An attacker with physical access to a PAX Point Of Sale device with ProlinOS through 2.4.161.8859R can boot it in management mode, enable the XCB service, and then list, read, create, and overwrite files with MAINAPP permissions.

Affected products

• Pax Prolinos: up to and including 2.4.161.8859r

Published 2020-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.