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SonicWall Patches Actively Exploited SMA1000 Zero-Day, Urges Immediate Hotfixes

Attackers chained the AMC privilege escalation with a January deserialization flaw to gain unauthenticated root access.

Overview

  • SonicWall credits Google Threat Intelligence Group researchers Clément Lecigne and Zander Work with reporting CVE-2025-40602.
  • Fixes are available in builds 12.4.3-03245 and 12.5.0-02283 or later, with SonicWall pressing customers to upgrade without delay.
  • The company confirms in-the-wild exploitation and says the issue affects the SMA1000 Appliance Management Console, not SonicWall firewall products.
  • Shadowserver reports more than 950 SMA1000 appliances exposed on the internet that could be at risk if not patched.
  • SonicWall advises restricting AMC access to specific admin IPs and disabling public AMC and SSH, and it has not shared indicators of compromise or attribution details.