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SonicWall security patch release for CVE-2025-40602

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SonicWall released fixes for SMA 100 series appliances after CVE-2025-40602 was reported actively exploited in the wild, closing a path to local privilege escalation in the appliance management console. The update covers 12.4.3-03093 and earlier and 12.5.0-02002 and earlier, with fixes in 12.4.3-03245 and 12.5.0-02283. SonicWall also said the flaw had reportedly been chained with CVE-2025-23006 to reach unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges, making prompt deployment important.

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  1. 17.12.2025 20:17 2 articles · 6mo ago

    SonicWall patches actively exploited CVE-2025-40602 in SMA 100 appliances

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    SonicWall rolled out fixes for Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances after CVE-2025-40602 was reported as actively exploited in the wild. The flaw is a CVSS 6.6 local privilege escalation in the appliance management console (AMC), and SonicWall said it was reportedly chained with CVE-2025-23006 to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges. Fixed platform-hotfix builds are 12.4.3-03245 for 12.4.3-03093 and earlier, and 12.5.0-02283 for 12.5.0-02002 and earlier; Clément Lecigne and Zander Work of Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) were credited with discovering and reporting CVE-2025-40602.

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