CVE-2024-53706
Published: 09 January 2025
Description
A vulnerability in the Gen7 SonicOS Cloud platform NSv, allows a remote authenticated local low-privileged attacker to elevate privileges to `root` and potentially lead to code execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2024-53706 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gen7 SonicOS Cloud platform NSv. It enables a remote authenticated local low-privileged attacker to elevate privileges to root and potentially achieve code execution. The issue carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and maps to CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management). The vulnerability was published on 2025-01-09.
A remote authenticated attacker with local low-privileged access can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation grants root-level privileges, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including the potential for arbitrary code execution on the affected NSv platform.
Mitigation details are available in the SonicWall PSIRT advisory at https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0003.
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