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CVE-2025-40573 MEDIUM

Published: 2025-05-13 | Last Modified: 2025-07-08 | Status: Modified

Description

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.

Additional Descriptions (1)

Se ha identificado una vulnerabilidad en SCALANCE LPE9403 (6GK5998-3GS00-2AC2) (todas las versiones). Los dispositivos afectados son vulnerables a ataques de path traversal. Esto podrĂ­a permitir que un atacante local con privilegios restaure copias de seguridad fuera de la carpeta de copias de seguridad.

CVSS Metrics

Base Score: 4.4 (MEDIUM)

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

Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredHIGH
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
Confidentiality ImpactNONE
Integrity ImpactHIGH
Availability ImpactNONE

Source: [email protected]

Type: Secondary

Exploitability Score: 0.8

Impact Score: 3.6

Base Score: 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Attack RequirementsNONE
Privileges RequiredHIGH
User InteractionNONE
Vulnerability ConfidentialityNONE
Vulnerability IntegrityHIGH
Vulnerability AvailabilityNONE
Subsequent ConfidentialityNONE
Subsequent IntegrityNONE
Subsequent AvailabilityNONE

Source: [email protected]

Type: Secondary

Weaknesses

Source Type Description
[email protected] Secondary
en CWE-35
[email protected] Primary
en CWE-22

Affected Products

Vendor Product Version Update Type
siemens scalance_lpe9403_firmware - <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7d24245acbc0> Operating System

Affected Configurations

Operator: OR

Vulnerable CPE
Yes cpe:2.3:o:siemens:scalance_lpe9403_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Operator: OR

Vulnerable CPE
No cpe:2.3:h:siemens:scalance_lpe9403:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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