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CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-10251

Aleos vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
A vulnerability in Sierra Wireless AirLink GX400, GX440, ES440, and LS300 routers with firmware before 4.4.7 and GX450, ES450, RV50, RV50X, MP70, and MP70E routers with firmware before 4.9.3 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and gain full control of an affected system, including issuing commands with root privileges.
Affected vendor
Sierrawireless
Affected product
Aleos
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
  • CWE-1188 — Insecure Default Initialization of Resource
Published
2018-05-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-10251

  • Confirm whether Sierrawireless Aleos is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-10251.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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