CVE-2023-42137: Paxtechnology Paydroid

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PAX Android based POS devices with PayDroid_8.1.0_Sagittarius_V11.1.50_20230614 or earlier can allow for command execution with high privileges by using malicious symlinks. The attacker must have shell access to the device in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Paxtechnology Paydroid: up to and including 8.1.0_sagittarius_11.1.50_20230614

Published 2024-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.