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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-40602

SonicWall SMA1000 Missing Authorization Vulnerability

Published Dec 17, 2025 · catalog updated Jun 17, 2026 · SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances

Patch now

CVE-2025-40602 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Dec 24, 2025. Confirm SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Medium6.6
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
2.76%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
cpe sonicwall/sma6200 firmware · cpe sonicwall/sma6210 firmware · cpe sonicwall/sma7200 firmware · cpe sonicwall/sma7210 firmware · cpe sonicwall/sma8200v · vendor SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances

SonicWall SMA1000 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation appliance management console (AMC) of affected devices.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • cpe sonicwall/sma6200 firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe sonicwall/sma6210 firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe sonicwall/sma7200 firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe sonicwall/sma7210 firmwareversion unspecified
  • cpe sonicwall/sma8200vversion unspecified
  • vendor SonicWall SMA1000 Appliancesversion unspecified
  • vendor SonicWall SMA1000 applianceversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2025-40602

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2025-40602 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Dec 24, 2025. Confirm SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges; CWE-862: Missing Authorization. EPSS 2.76%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Dec 17, 2025 · Catalog

    Detected

    SonicWall SMA1000 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation appliance management console (AMC) of affected devices.

  2. Dec 17, 2025 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable

  3. Dec 24, 2025 · CISA KEV

    Remediation due

    Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable

  4. Jun 17, 2026 · Catalog

    Updated

    SonicWall SMA1000 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation appliance management console (AMC) of affected devices.

Sources

  • CISA KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2025-40602

    SonicWall SMA1000 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation appliance management console (AMC) of affected devices.

    cisa.gov
  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-40602

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-40602

    30-day exploitation probability 2.8%

    first.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2025-40602

    A local privilege escalation vulnerability due to insufficient authorization in the SonicWall SMA1000 appliance management console (AMC).

    nvd.nist.gov
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2025-40602

    SonicWall SMA1000 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation appliance management console (AMC) of affected devices.

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.