CVE-2018-9866

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Aug 3, 2018
Updated: May 5, 2025
Reserved: Apr 9, 2018

Description

A vulnerability in lack of validation of user-supplied parameters pass to XML-RPC calls on SonicWall Global Management System (GMS) virtual appliance's, allow remote user to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability affected GMS version 8.1 and earlier.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Global Management System (GMS)SonicWall	8.1 and earlierAffected

References

https://twitter.com/ddouhine/status/1019251292202586112
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/10305
https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2018-0007

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