CVE-2014-8420

critical
Published 2014-11-25 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The ViewPoint web application in Dell SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) before 7.2 SP2, SonicWALL Analyzer before 7.2 SP2, and SonicWALL UMA before 7.2 SP2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

SonicWall Global Management System XMLRPC set_time_zone Unauth RCE
Source fetch failed: fetch_error โ€” view the original via the link above.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sonicwallanalyzer7.2
sonicwallglobal_management_system7.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.