CVSS 3.1
4.9 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2021-40858
Medium (4.9) in auerswald. EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Auerswald COMpact 5500R devices before 8.2B allow Arbitrary File Disclosure. A sub-admin can read the cleartext Admin password via the fileName=../../etc/passwd substring.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- auerswald:commander_6000r_ip_firmware
- auerswald:commander_6000rx_ip_firmware
- auerswald:commander_basic.2\(19\"\)_ip_firmware
- auerswald:commander_business\(19\"\)_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_4000_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5000r_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5010_voip_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5020_voip_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5200r_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5500r_ip_firmware
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165166/Auerswald-COMpact-8.0B-Arbitrary-File-Disclosure.html
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2021-006
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/en/advisories/-advisories-publicised-vulnerability-analyses
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165166/Auerswald-COMpact-8.0B-Arbitrary-File-Disclosure.html
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2021-006