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CVE-2021-20034 flaw can allow SMA 100 device takeover, patch it now!

SonicWall fixed a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-20034, that impacts some Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series products that can allow device takeover.

SonicWall has addressed a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20034, that impacting several Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series products. The vulnerability is an improper access control vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain admin access on targeted devices.

“An improper access control vulnerability in SMA100 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass the path traversal checks and delete an arbitrary file potentially resulting in a reboot to factory default settings.” reads the advisory published by SonicWall.

Affected products are:

The company did not provide mitigations for this issue, the good news is that it is not aware of attacks in the wild exploiting the flaw.

SonicWall urges organizations using SMA 100 series appliances to immediately install the latest firmware versions that addresses the the above vulnerability.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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