Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-36175 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-36175 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-36175?
- Informational severity, published 4 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- GNCC GP5 v7.1.76.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-36175?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-36175 attacked?
- It is attacked with physical access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-36175?
- Check whether you run GNCC GP5 at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A vulnerability in the U-Boot bootloader of the GNCC GP5 (v7.1.76) allows for an authentication bypass via the serial console or physical interface. By interrupting the standard boot sequence, an attacker can modify the kernel boot arguments (bootargs). Specifically, injecting a crafted string such as 'init=/bin/sh' into the boot parameters allows the attacker to spawn a root shell instead of the intended initialization process. This grants full system-level access to the underlying Linux operating system without requiring valid credentials.
Affected products
- GNCC GP5 v7.1.76
Timeline
- 2026-06-04: disclosed: Initial disclosure via NVD and researcher GitHub repository.