CVE-2018-4063
8.8, high Known exploitedSierra Wireless AirLink ALEOS Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 27% higher than 98% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 6 May 20197 years ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 12 Dec 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 2 Jan 2026, a deadline that has passed.
Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the upload.cgi functionality of Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 FW 4.9.3. A specially crafted HTTP request can upload a file, resulting in executable code being uploaded, and routable, to the webserver. An attacker can make an authenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.
Details
- Vendor
- Sierra Wireless
- Product
- Sierra Wireless
- Weakness
- CWE-434 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 17 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- talos-cna@cisco.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 6
Exploit code 3
- packetstormsecurity.com /files/152648/Sierra-Wireless-AirLink-ES450-ACEManager-upload.cgi-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)
- talosintelligence.com /vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0748 (opens in a new tab)
- forescout.com /blog/ot-network-security-threats-industrial-routers-under-attack/ (opens in a new tab)
Advisories 2
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 16 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.