Advisory Details

February 10th, 2016

Dell SonicWALL GMS Virtual Appliance Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2016-2397
CVSS SCORE	10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	SonicWALL
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	GMS Virtual Appliance
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Dell SonicWALL GMS Virtual Appliance. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the cliserver implementation, which accepts, deserializes, and executes XML-encoded, serialized Java code. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of root.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	SonicWALL has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://www.mysonicwall.com/firmware/downloadcenter.aspx Hotfix 168056
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-09-13 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2016-02-10 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	cpnrodzc7

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