Critical Vulnerability Exposes Industrial Robot Fleets to Hacking
Critical OS command injection vulnerability CVE-2026-8153 in Universal Robots PolyScope 5 allows unauthenticated RCE.
Universal Robots patched a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-8153, CVSS 9.8) in PolyScope 5 that allows unauthenticated attackers with network access to execute arbitrary OS commands on cobot controllers via the Dashboard Server interface. The vulnerability requires the Dashboard Server to be enabled and reachable, but in flat, unsegmented industrial networks, compromising one robot could lead to fleet-wide compromise and physical safety hazards.
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- cve — CVE-2026-8153