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CVE-2023-40461

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-40461 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the ACEManager component of ALEOS 4.16 and earlier, affecting various Sierra Wireless routers. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) allows an authenticated administrator to inject malicious scripts due to insufficient file name validation during upload. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking public exploit code, its presence in critical infrastructure routers warrants attention, as evidenced by limited 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

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 4,937 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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