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CVE-2024-12805 (GCVE-0-2024-12805)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-09 07:24 – Updated: 2025-01-17 02:15
VLAI
Summary
A post-authentication format string vulnerability in SonicOS management allows a remote attacker to crash a firewall and potentially leads to code execution.
Severity
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-09 14:54 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-134 - Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SonicWall SonicOS Affected: 6.5.4.15-117n and older versions
Affected: 7.0.1-5161 and older version
Affected: 7.1.2-7019
Affected: 8.0.0-8035
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Date Public
2025-01-08 07:14
Credits
Catalpa of DBappSecurity Co. Ltd.
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