CVE-2023-44221
SonicWall SMA100 Appliances OS Command Injection Vulnerability
- Published
- Dec 5, 2023
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- sonicwall
- Evidence observed
- May 1, 2025
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.5%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
Improper neutralization of special elements in the SMA100 SSL-VPN management interface allows a remote authenticated attacker with administrative privilege to inject arbitrary commands as a 'nobody' user, potentially leading to OS Command Injection Vulnerability.
Sources
1PoC exploit chain for pre-authentication remote code execution on SonicWall SMA 100 appliances exploiting CVE-2023-44221 and CVE-2024-38475.
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