Published

18 August 2022

Last modified

17 June 2026

CVSS

9.8 v3.1

Severity

critical

EPSS

99.6% (100th pct)

CISA KEV

Not listed

NVD status

Modified

Weaknesses

CWE-78

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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. NOTE: The vendor has stated that with the introduction of firmware version 1.49.16 (Jan 2023) the FLIR AX8 should no longer be affected by the vulnerability reported. Latest firmware version (as of Oct 2025, was released Jun 2024) is 1.55.16.

Exploitation

Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue as of 2026.09.04. That is an absence of confirmed public exploitation, not evidence that exploitation has not occurred. EPSS models a 99.6% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, placing it in the top decile of all scored CVEs.

Affected products

References

Vendor advisory and patch

• https://www.flir.com/products/ax8-automation/
• https://www.flir.com/products/ax8-automation/

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168114/FLIX-AX8-1.46.16-Remote-Command-Execution.html exploit
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168116/FLIR-AX8-1.46.16-Traversal-Access-Control-Command-Injection-XSS.html exploit
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169701/FLIR-AX8-1.46.16-Remote-Command-Injection.html exploit
• https://gist.github.com/Nwqda/9e16852ab7827dc62b8e44d6180a6899 exploit
• https://github.com/WlX-33/PoC-for-CVE/blob/main/CVE-2022-36266/FLIR%20AX8%20Unauthenticated%20OS%20Command%20Injection.py
• https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2018-5491.php exploit
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168114/FLIX-AX8-1.46.16-Remote-Command-Execution.html exploit
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168116/FLIR-AX8-1.46.16-Traversal-Access-Control-Command-Injection-XSS.html exploit
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169701/FLIR-AX8-1.46.16-Remote-Command-Injection.html exploit
• https://gist.github.com/Nwqda/9e16852ab7827dc62b8e44d6180a6899 exploit
• https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2018-5491.php exploit

CVE-2022-37061 at NVD

Record assembled from NVD, CISA KEV 2026.09.04 and FIRST EPSS 2026-09-04. Affected products are those NVD's CPE configuration names that fall inside this site's scope; a CVE may affect products outside it.