SonicWall’s SMA 1000 Flaw: A Patch a Day Keeps Hackers at Bay!

SonicWall has sounded the alarm on a zero-day flaw in the SMA1000 AMC, urging users to patch up before hackers turn their devices into a privilege escalator. This security bug, CVE-2025-40602, is the keyphrase you need to remember—unless you want your system to be the next viral meme for cyber blunders!

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Hot Take:

Looks like SonicWall’s SMA 1000 AMC is starring in its own cybersecurity horror show, with a zero-day vulnerability as the main antagonist. Time to patch up, folks, before your network gets more visitors than a free buffet!

Key Points:

– SonicWall warns of a zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability, CVE-2025-40602, in the SMA1000 AMC.
– This flaw has been actively exploited in combination with CVE-2025-23006 for root-level remote code execution.
– The CVE-2025-23006 vulnerability was previously patched in January 2025.
– Users are strongly advised to update to the latest hotfix to mitigate the risk.
– The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has classified CVE-2025-23006 as a known exploited vulnerability.

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