CVSS base score: 9.3 (Critical) CISA · v3.1
Score assigned by CISA's Vulnrichment program; the vendor's CVE record did not include one.
SonicWall SonicOS Improper Access Control Vulnerability
Vendor: SonicWall Product: SonicOS
SonicWall SonicOS contains an improper access control vulnerability that could lead to unauthorized resource access and, under certain conditions, may cause the firewall to crash.
Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 121 points from 2024-08-24, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 79.4% on 2025-03-29.
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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.
No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.
Blind spot. No public detection — verify by version/patch. Nothing in the monitored scanner, IDS, SIEM or offensive-tool collections references this CVE, so exposure has to be established from asset inventory and patch level rather than from a signature.
Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan);
Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM);
Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence
here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by
PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted:
some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was
published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available
under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0;
its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed
GNU GPL v2.
Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-284) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.
| Source | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|
| CISA Vulnrichment | 2024-08-23 | source record → |
| CISA KEV | 2024-09-09 | source record → |
| Date | Advisory | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-13 | #StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware | FBI |
| 2024-08-27 | 2024-089: Critical Vulnerability in SonicWall SonicOS | CERT-EU |
| 2024-04-18 | #StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware | CISA |
No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.
Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.
CVE.org record → NVD entry → CISA KEV catalog → FortiGuard Labs → Rapid7 AttackerKB →