CVE-2020-5140 vulnerability in SonicWall Products
Published on October 12, 2020
A vulnerability in SonicOS allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS) on the firewall SSLVPN service by sending a malicious HTTP request that leads to memory addresses leak. This vulnerability affected SonicOS Gen 5 version 5.9.1.7, 5.9.1.13, Gen 6 version 6.5.4.7, 6.5.1.12, 6.0.5.3, SonicOSv 6.5.4.v and Gen 7 version SonicOS 7.0.0.0.
Weakness Type
Out-of-bounds Read
The software reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can allow attackers to read sensitive information from other memory locations or cause a crash. A crash can occur when the code reads a variable amount of data and assumes that a sentinel exists to stop the read operation, such as a NUL in a string. The expected sentinel might not be located in the out-of-bounds memory, causing excessive data to be read, leading to a segmentation fault or a buffer overflow. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent read operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-5140
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Affected Versions
SonicWall SonicOS:- Version SonicOS 6.5.4.7-79n and earlier is affected.
- Version SonicOS 5.9.1.7-2n and earlier is affected.
- Version SonicOS 5.9.1.13-5n and earlier is affected.
- Version SonicOS 6.5.1.11-4n and earlier is affected.
- Version SonicOS 6.0.5.3-93o and earlier is affected.
- Version SonicOSv 6.5.4.4-44v-21-794 and earlier is affected.
- Version SonicOS 7.0.0.0-1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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