PT-2018-19085

CVE-2018-9866

Published

2018-08-03

Updated

2025-05-05

Description by

CVSS 3.1

9.8

Critical

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SonicWall Global Management System (GMS) versions 8.1 and earlier

Description A vulnerability in the lack of validation of user-supplied parameters passed to XML-RPC calls allows remote users to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations For versions 8.1 and earlier, update to a version later than 8.1 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the XML-RPC calls to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Michael Flanders

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-77: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command (\'Command Injection\')

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

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