CVE-2024-40766

State: Published
Severity: 9.3 Critical
Published: Aug 23, 2024
Updated: Sep 21, 2026
Reserved: Jul 10, 2024

Description

An improper access control vulnerability has been identified in the SonicWall SonicOS management access, potentially leading to unauthorized resource access and in specific conditions, causing the firewall to crash. This issue affects SonicWall Firewall Gen 5 and Gen 6 devices, as well as Gen 7 devices running SonicOS 7.0.1-5035 and older versions.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.3 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
SonicOSSonicWall	5.9.2.14-12o and older versionsAffected 6.5.4.14-109n and older versionsAffected 7.0.1-5035 and older versionsAffected

References

https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2024-0015vendor-advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-40766government-resource

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