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1 vulnerability by Abilis
CVE-2025-35021 (GCVE-0-2025-35021)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-04 00:23 – Updated: 2025-11-05 14:54
VLAI?
Summary
By failing to authenticate three times to an unconfigured Abilis CPX device via SSH, an attacker can login to a restricted shell on the fourth attempt, and from there, relay connections.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-1188 - Insecure Default Initialization of Resource
Assigner
References
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Credits
HD Moore
Tod Beardsley
AHA!
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