# Deserialization of untrusted data in SonicWall SMA1000

CVE record · `CVE-2025-23006`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-23006`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.8 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: KEV, CVSS 9+, CVSS 7+ and EPSS
- **CNA:** sonicwall
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-502](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html)
- **Tags:** [Insecure deserialization](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/deserialization.md)
- **Technologies:** [SonicWall SMA1000](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/sonicwall-sma1000.md)
- **Published:** 23 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: sonicwall) at 23 Jan 2025, 11:37 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 24 Jan 2025: it is known to be exploited.
- CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
- CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.27 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: SonicWall. Product: SMA1000.
  - affected: `12.4.3-02804 (platform-hotfix) and earlier versions.`
  - Other versions: unknown

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.8 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from ADP (CISA-ADP)

- **CISA KEV:** Listed since 24 Jan 2025: known to be exploited. CISA reports use in ransomware campaigns.
- **EPSS:** 0.27, the 98th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 23 Jan 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-23006](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23006)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-23006](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23006)

### References from the CNA

- <https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0002> (vendor-advisory)

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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