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CVE-2025-40602 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Appliance Management Console (AMC). The flaw is caused by insufficient authorization checks within the management console, allowing a locally authenticated or otherwise already-positioned attacker with limited access to perform actions beyond their intended privilege level and escalate privileges on the appliance. SonicWall and multiple reports indicate the issue affects SMA1000 appliances, including vulnerable 12.4.3 and 12.5.0 release trains prior to the vendor hotfixes. Although the vulnerability is medium severity on its own, it has operational significance because it has been observed in the wild and has reportedly been chained with CVE-2025-23006, a pre-authentication deserialization flaw, to progress from initial access to full appliance compromise.
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A historical SonicWall SMA 1000 privilege escalation vulnerability mentioned as background on prior exploitation of SonicWall devices.
A SonicWall vulnerability in remote-access products that was added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
SonicWall SMA 100 series local privilege escalation due to insufficient authorization in the management console; actively exploited; fixes released.
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