SonicWall SMA1000 Missing Authorization Vulnerability

SonicWall SMA1000 appliance

SonicWall SMA1000 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation appliance management console (AMC) of affected devices. Added to CISA KEV on 2025-12-17 (federal deadline 2025-12-24).

First seen: 17 Dec 2025
Last update: 17 Dec 2025, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2025-40602
Source: CISA KEV
On the menu as: VPN & firewalls

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## SonicWall SMA1000 Missing Authorization Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: SonicWall SMA1000 appliance
Ids: CVE-2025-40602

SonicWall SMA1000 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation appliance management console (AMC) of affected devices. Added to CISA KEV on 2025-12-17 (federal deadline 2025-12-24).

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (vpn-edge). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2025-40602") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40602
https://pwned.coffee/i/sonicwall-sma1000-missing-authorization-vulnerability-cve-2025-40602

Sources

NVD: CVE-2025-40602

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