CVE-2025-23006 — SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Deserialization Vulnerability

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 arbitr

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
SonicWall	SMA1000	12.4.3-02804 (platform-hotfix) and earlier versions.

03Active exploitation status

Yes — actively exploited. Added to the CISA KEV catalog on 2025-01-24. Ransomware use: Known.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2025-01-23T11:37:41.148Z
• Last modified: 2026-02-26T19:08:57.752Z
• Added to CISA KEV: 2025-01-24
• BOD 22-01 due: 2025-02-14

09References

• psirt.global.sonicwall.com — https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0002