CVE-2025-40604 (GCVE-0-2025-40604)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-20 12:17 – Updated: 2025-11-21 05:02
VLAI?
Summary
Download of Code Without Integrity Check Vulnerability in the SonicWall Email Security appliance loads root filesystem images without verifying signatures, allowing attackers with VMDK or datastore access to modify system files and gain persistent arbitrary code execution.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-494 - Download of Code Without Integrity Check
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SonicWall Email Security Affected: 10.0.33.8195 and earlier versions
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Credits
Brian Mariani of DigitalCanion SA - www.digitalcanion.com
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