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CVE-2025-40602 is a medium-severity local privilege-escalation vulnerability in the SonicWall SMA1000 Appliance Management Console (AMC). Insufficient authorization checks allow an authenticated or otherwise local attacker to perform actions beyond their intended privileges and obtain elevated privileges on the appliance. Affected releases include SMA1000 version 12.4.3-03093 and earlier and version 12.5.0-02002 and earlier. The vulnerability has been actively exploited, including in chains with CVE-2025-23006.
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99 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A SonicWall SMA1000 zero-day vulnerability that attackers combined with other techniques to obtain root privileges.
A prior SonicWall SMA1000 zero-day vulnerability that attackers chained to obtain root privileges.
A separate SonicWall SMA1000 AMC vulnerability mentioned as background; it was reportedly chained in zero-day attacks to gain root privileges.
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Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.