CVE-2023-40462

HIGH

ALEOS < 4.16.0 - Denial of Service in ACEManager Authentication

Title source: llm

Description

The ACEManager component of ALEOS 4.16 and earlier does not 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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00024.html

Vendor Advisory

https://source.sierrawireless.com/resources/security-bulletins/sierra-wireless-technical-bulletin---swi-psa-2023-006/#sthash.6KUVtE6w.dpbs

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0088

EPSS Percentile 54.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-617

Status published

Products (2)

debian/debian_linux 10.0

sierrawireless/aleos < 4.16.0

Published Dec 04, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026