CVE-2022-37061 — All FLIR AX8 thermal sensor cameras version up to and including 1

All FLIR AX8 thermal sensor cameras version up to and including 1.46.16 are vulnerable to Remote Command Injection. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands as the root user through the id HTTP POST parameter in the res.php endpoint. A successful explo

01What is this vulnerability?

All FLIR AX8 thermal sensor cameras version up to and including 1.46.16 are vulnerable to Remote Command Injection. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands as the root user through the id HTTP POST parameter in the res.php endpoint. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the root privileges…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-08-18T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-10-17T19:18:34.915Z

09References

• www.flir.com — https://www.flir.com/products/ax8-automation/
• gist.github.com — https://gist.github.com/Nwqda/9e16852ab7827dc62b8e44d6180a6899
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168114/FLIX-AX8-1.46.16-Remote-Command-Exec…
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168116/FLIR-AX8-1.46.16-Traversal-Access-Co…
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169701/FLIR-AX8-1.46.16-Remote-Command-Inje…
• www.zeroscience.mk — https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2018-5491.php
• github.com — https://github.com/WlX-33/PoC-for-CVE/blob/main/CVE-2022-36266/FLIR%20AX8%20Unau…