CVE-2023-44221 — SonicWall SMA100 Appliances OS Command Injection Vulnerability

CVE-2023-44221 (SonicWall SMA100 Appliances) is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since 2025-05-01. SonicWall SMA100 appliances contain an OS command injection vulnerability in the SSL-VPN management… See the required fix, due date and advisories.

Exploitation status

CVE-2023-44221 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2025-05-01. SonicWall SMA100 appliances contain an OS command injection vulnerability in the SSL-VPN management interface that allows a remote, authenticated attacker with administrative privilege to inject arbitrary commands as a 'nobody' user.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project
SonicWall
Affected product
SMA100 Appliances
Added to CISA KEV
2025-05-01
US federal remediation due date
2025-05-22
Ransomware association
Unknown
EPSS score
—
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-78

Remediation: the required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Wording published by CISA for this catalog entry. It is the baseline action, not a decision about your environment: whether this exposure matters for you depends on where the affected component runs, what it is exposed to and who owns it.

From advisory to a decision you can defend

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Sourced from public upstream advisories (CISA KEV, ENISA EUVD, vendor PSIRTs) mirrored daily. Informational only — not a remediation decision, not legal advice, and the absence of a record is not evidence of safety.