SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Deserialization Vulnerability (CVE-2025-23006)
SonicWall SMA1000 Appliance Management Console (AMC) and Central Management Console (CMC) contain a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability, which can enable a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands.
A remote attacker, without authentication, can achieve full data confidentiality loss, arbitrary modification of data, complete denial of service or system unavailability. CISA has confirmed use of this vulnerability in known ransomware campaigns — treat as high priority for remediation. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2025-02-14 under CISA BOD 22-01.
This is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability in SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances. 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. Exploitation requires remote network access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and no user interaction required.
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CISA confirms this CVE has been used in known ransomware campaigns. Added to the KEV catalog on 2025-01-24; federal agencies required to remediate by 2025-02-14.
Manual remediation steps
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