CVE-2023-40459 (GCVE-0-2023-40459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-04 22:48 – Updated: 2025-05-29 13:44
VLAI?
Summary
The ACEManager component of ALEOS 4.16 and earlier does not adequately perform input sanitization during authentication, which could potentially result in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition for ACEManager without impairing other router functions. ACEManager recovers from the DoS condition by restarting within ten seconds of becoming unavailable.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
SWI
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SierraWireless ALEOS Affected: 4.10 , ≤ 4.16 (custom)
Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.9.8 (custom)
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