SonicWall fixed critical SQLi in Analytics and GMS products

Security company SonicWall released updates to address a critical SQL injection (SQLi) flaw in Analytics On-Prem and Global Management System (GMS) products.

Security company SonicWall addressed a critical SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22280 (CVSS score 9.4), in Analytics On-Prem and Global Management System (GMS) products.

“Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command leading to Unauthenticated SQL Injection vulnerability, impacting SonicWall GMS and Analytics On-Prem.” reads the advisory published by the company.

SonicWall researchers pointed out that the likelihood of exploitation may be significantly reduced by incorporating Web Application Firewall that could detect and block SQLi attacks.

The vulnerability was discovered by H4lo & Catalpa of Hatlab DBappSecurity.

Below is the list of fixed software:

Product	Fixed Version
GMS	9.3.1-SP2-Hotfix-2
Analytics	2.5.0.3-2520-Hotfix1

Organizations are recommended to upgrade to the above version as soon as possible.

“There is no workaround available for this vulnerability,” SonicWall said. “However, the likelihood of exploitation may be significantly reduced by incorporating a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block SQLi attempts.”

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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”.