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CVE-2024-53704: An Improper Authentication vulnerability in the SSLVPN authentication mechanism allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Now (action score 98/100)

CISA has confirmed exploitation in the wild (Feb 18, 2025); it is known to be used in ransomware campaigns. Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Mar 11, 2025.
A ready-made attack module is public (Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 95.3% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 99.8% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Patch today or shut off access. Until a fix is released, restrict access to the affected component and follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.1KEVWeaponized No fix recorded

BDU:2025-00205

Published: Jan 9, 2025
Updated: Aug 4, 2026
EPSS: 95.3% · 99th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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Now

Patch today or shut off access.

CVSS: 39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 30 / 30 · Listed
EPSS: 29 / 30 · 95.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: active
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

Actively exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Feb 18, 2025. That signals real attacks, not theory.

Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Mar 11, 2025.

Known to be used in ransomware campaigns.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
sonicwall	sonicos	cpe:2.3:o:sonicwall:sonicos
sonicwall	nsa 2700	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nsa_2700
sonicwall	nsa 3700	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nsa_3700
sonicwall	nsa 4700	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nsa_4700
sonicwall	nsa 5700	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nsa_5700
sonicwall	nsa 6700	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nsa_6700
sonicwall	nssp 10700	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nssp_10700
sonicwall	nssp 11700	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nssp_11700
sonicwall	nssp 13700	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nssp_13700
sonicwall	nssp 15700	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nssp_15700
sonicwall	nsv 270	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nsv_270
sonicwall	nsv 470	cpe:2.3:h:sonicwall:nsv_470

and 12 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

sonicwall sonicos7.1.1-7040 and later · up to 7.1.1-7058 inclusive
sonicwall sonicos7.1.2-7019
sonicwall sonicos8.0.0-8035

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (sonicwall). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

SonicWall SonicOS
- 7.1.1-7058 and older versions, 7.1.2-7019, 8.0.0-8035affected

Same product

sonicwall: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-5135A buffer overflow vulnerability in SonicOS allows a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially execute arbitrary code KEV
77This week
CVE-2024-40766An improper access control vulnerability has been identified in the SonicWall SonicOS management access, potentially leading to unauthorizedKEV
75This week
CVE-2022-22274A Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the SonicOS via HTTP request allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause Denial of Serv
62This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-40764Jul 18, 2024 · Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the SonicOS IPSec VPN allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS)
30Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-40762Jan 9, 2025 · Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in the SonicOS SSLVPN authentication token generator that, in certain ca
39Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-53705Jan 9, 2025 · A Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the SonicOS SSH management interface allows a remote attacker to establish a TCP connection t
30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Evidence

Nuclei detection template ×1
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×3

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Nuclei detection template	Nuclei template CVE-2024-53704	—
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:0	2025-01-22
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:2	2025-02-11
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:0	2026-02-23

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

PublishedJan 9, 2025
First PoCJan 22, 2025+13 d
CISA KEVFeb 18, 2025+40 d
TodayNov 5, 2026+666 d

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Daan Keuper, Thijs Alkemade and Khaled NassarComputest Sector 7 reported to ZDI.reporter

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2024-22394337 days apartAn improper authentication vulnerability has been identified in SonicWall SonicOS SSL-VPN feature, which in specific conditions could allow
39Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2024-128060 days apartA post-authentication absolute path traversal vulnerability in SonicOS management allows a remote attacker to read an arbitrary file.
19Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0003

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www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-53704

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