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CVE-2023-40460

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-40460 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Sierra Wireless ALEOS 4.16 and earlier, including various ES450, GX450, LX40, LX60, MP70, RV50X, and RV55 products. It allows an authenticated user to achieve client-side script execution within the ACEManager component due to improper validation of uploaded file names and types. This can alter device functionality until a restart, with a CVSS score of 5.4 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N). There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV entry, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

source.sierrawireless.com / resources/security-bulletins/sierra-wireless-technical-bulletin---swi-psa-2023-006
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