CVE-2025-40602
Actively exploited. CVE-2025-40602 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-12-17) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Public exploit code is available. Proof-of-concept or working exploit code for CVE-2025-40602 is indexed in GitHub PoC. Expect opportunistic scanning and exploitation attempts — prioritize remediation.
SonicWall SMA1000 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation appliance management console (AMC) of affected devices.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- This vulnerability could allow for privilege escalation in the appliance management console.
- Who is affected
- Users of SonicWall SMA1000 devices.
- Urgency
- Immediate action is required as the vulnerability is critical and actively exploited.
- Action
- Patch affected devices as per SonicWall's advisory.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 77% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Exploit availability
Public exploit or proof-of-concept code for CVE-2025-40602 is indexed in these free datasets. Available exploit code raises real-world risk independent of the CVSS score.
- GitHub PoCPublic proof-of-concept repositories on GitHub reference this CVE.look it up ↗
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-40602: SonicWall SMA1000 Missing Authorization Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-12-17
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