CVE-2023-40463 (GCVE-0-2023-40463)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-04 22:57
Modified
2025-05-29 13:43
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Summary
When configured in debugging mode by an authenticated user with administrative privileges, ALEOS 4.16 and earlier store the SHA512 hash of the common root password for that version in a directory accessible to a user with root privileges or equivalent access.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SierraWireless ALEOS Version: 4.10
Version: 0
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