SonicWall SMA100 Appliances OS Command Injection
What to do
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
CISA deadline 2025-05-22 · passed 1 year 3 months ago · applies to US federal civilian agencies; used elsewhere as a reference SLA
What happened
SonicWall SMA100 appliances contain an OS command injection vulnerability in the SSL-VPN management interface that allows a remote, authenticated attacker with administrative privilege to inject arbitrary commands as a 'nobody' user.
Who is affected
SonicWall SMA100 Appliances. Affected version ranges are listed in the vendor advisory and the NVD entry linked under Sources.
Weakness class: CWE-78.
Timeline
- Added to CISA KEVExploitation in the wild confirmed by CISA
- CISA remediation deadlinepassed 1 year 3 months ago
Sources
- NVD entry for CVE-2023-44221 nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44221
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
- psirt.global.sonicwall.com psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2023-0018
- nvd.nist.gov nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44221