On April 16, 2025, CISA added CVE-2021-20035, a command injection vulnerability affecting SonicWall SMA100 appliances, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog after confirming evidence of active exploitation in the wild. “This vulnerability is potentially being exploited in the wild,” SonicWall confirmed in a security advisory update published April 14, 2025. “These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise,” CISA warned in its advisory. Cyber Security News is a Dedicated News Platform For Cyber News, Cyber Attack News, Hacking News & Vulnerability Analysis. The vulnerability impacts multiple versions of SonicWall SMA100 Series appliances, including SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, and SMA 500v virtual appliances deployed across various platforms such as ESX, KVM, AWS, and Azure. The vulnerability, which has been assigned a CVSS score of 7.2, stems from improper neutralization of special elements in the SMA100 management interface. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to steal sensitive data, deploy ransomware, or establish persistence for deeper lateral movement across the victim’s network.
This Cyber News was published on cybersecuritynews.com. Publication date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:10:08 +0000