CVE-2025-40573 (GCVE-0-2025-40573)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 09:38 – Updated: 2025-07-08 10:34
VLAI
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE LPE9403 (6GK5998-3GS00-2AC2) (All versions < V4.0 HF0). Affected devices are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. This could allow a privileged local attacker to restore backups that are outside the backup folder.
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-13 18:43 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-35 - Path Traversal: '.../...//'
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Siemens SCALANCE LPE9403 Affected: 0 , < V4.0 HF0 (custom)
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