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CVE-2026-78328 (GCVE-0-2026-78328)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-04 18:19 – Updated: 2026-09-04 19:49

Summary

A missing authorization vulnerability in the SonicWall Network Security Manager (NSM) On-Prem Management interface allows a lower-privileged Admin user to escalate privileges to SuperAdmin.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-04 19:49 UTC

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

sonicwall mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SN…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
SonicWall	Network Security Manager (NSM)	Affected: 4.3.0 and earlier versions	guessed

Date Public

2026-09-04 18:10

Credits

Andrei Lungu of Pentest-Tools.com

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CERTFR-2026-AVI-1115

Vulnerability from certfr_avis - Published: 2026-09-04 - Updated: 2026-09-04

De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Sonicwall Network Security Manager. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance, une élévation de privilèges et un contournement de la politique de sécurité.

Solutions

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description
	Sonicwall	Network Security Manager	Network Security Manager On-Prem (VMWare, Hyper-V, Azure et KVM) versions antérieures à 4.3.1-R4

References

Title

Publication Time

Tags

Bulletin de sécurité SonicWall SNWLID-2026-0015

2026-09-03

vendor-advisory

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      "name": "CVE-2026-78328",
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    {
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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.