🛡️ CVE-2026-40425 — interschalt-vdr-g4e-firmware

🟡 CVSS 5.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-552 NVD
5.7
CVSS Score
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Description

The administrator account for the

Danelec MacGregor Voyage Data Recorder

web interface can directly edit sensitive files related to authentication, potentially changing the root password.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-40425 is classified as CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties. Files intended to stay internal are reachable from outside the application.

Affected software

CVE-2026-40425 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • interschalt-vdr-g4e-firmware (fixed in 5.250)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 29 May 2026 and last revised on 20 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
www.cisa.gov
www.danelec.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-552
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-29
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
interschalt-vdr-g4e-firmware — 5.250
unknown — —

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