CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-40857
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-12-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-522
Description
Auerswald COMpact 5500R devices before 8.2B allow Privilege Escalation via the passwd=1 substring.
Affected configurations
• auerswald compact 5500r ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
• auerswald compact 5200r ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
• auerswald compact 5000r ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
• auerswald compact 4000 ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
• auerswald commander 6000r ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
• auerswald commander 6000rx ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
• auerswald commander business\(19\"\) ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
• auerswald commander basic.2\(19\"\) ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
• auerswald compact 5010 voip ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
• auerswald compact 5020 voip ip firmware (<= 8.0b)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165163/Auerswald-COMpact-8.0B-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2021-005 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/en/advisories/-advisories-publicised-vulnerability-analyses Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165163/Auerswald-COMpact-8.0B-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2021-005 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/en/advisories/-advisories-publicised-vulnerability-analyses Exploit, Third Party Advisory