CVE-2025-35021 (GCVE-0-2025-35021)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-04 00:23
Modified
2025-11-05 14:54
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-1188 - Insecure Default Initialization of Resource
Summary
By failing to authenticate three times to an unconfigured Abilis CPX device via SSH, an attacker can login to a restricted shell on the fourth attempt, and from there, relay connections.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Abilis CPX Version: 0   ≤
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