Auerswald Compact 5500r IP Firmware vulnerabilities

2 CVEs affecting Auerswald Compact 5500r IP Firmware, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2021-40858, published 2021-12-13.

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• CVE-2021-40858, published 2021-12-13. Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Auerswald COMpact 5500R devices before 8.2B allow Arbitrary File Disclosure. A sub-admin can read the cleartext Admin password via the fileName=../../etc/passwd substring.
• CVE-2021-40857, published 2021-12-13. High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Auerswald COMpact 5500R devices before 8.2B allow Privilege Escalation via the passwd=1 substring.