CVE-2023-40463 affects ALEOS 4.16 and earlier, including various Sierra Wireless routers like the ES450, MP70, and RV55. When an authenticated administrator enables debugging mode, the SHA512 hash of the common root password is stored in a root-accessible directory. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), indicating a high severity. An attacker with administrative privileges can gain full control (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) of the device by accessing this hash, with low attack complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available. Despite this, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including an article from BleepingComputer.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sierrawireless:aleos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.10, <= 4.16CPE match | cpe:2.3:o:sierrawireless:aleos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 0, <= 4.9.8CPE match | cpe:2.3:o:sierrawireless:aleos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.