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CVE-2025-23006: SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Deserialization Vulnerability

CVE-2025-23006 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and affects SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances, along with 8 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication, without any user interaction. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available. CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-01-24, which means exploitation in the wild has been observed.

Vulnerability description

Pre-authentication deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability has been identified in the SMA1000 Appliance Management Console (AMC) and Central Management Console (CMC), which in specific conditions could potentially enable a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v3.1 9.8: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network, with no need for local or physical access.
  • Attack complexity: Low. No special conditions; the attack can be repeated reliably.
  • Privileges required: None. No account or prior access is needed.
  • User interaction: None. No action from any user is needed.
  • Scope: Unchanged. Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High. Total loss of confidentiality; sensitive data can be fully disclosed.
  • Integrity impact: High. Total loss of integrity; data or system state can be fully modified.
  • Availability impact: High. Total loss of availability; the component can be shut down.

Underlying weakness

CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected products

  • Sonicwall Sma8200v: before 12.4.3-02854
  • Sonicwall Sma6200 Firmware: before 12.4.3-02854
  • Sonicwall Sma6210 Firmware: before 12.4.3-02854
  • Sonicwall Sma7200 Firmware: before 12.4.3-02854
  • Sonicwall Sma7210 Firmware: before 12.4.3-02854
  • Sonicwall Sra Ex6000 Firmware: up to and including 12.4.3-02804
  • Sonicwall Sra Ex7000 Firmware: up to and including 12.4.3-02804
  • Sonicwall Sra Ex9000 Firmware: up to and including 12.4.3-02804

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