SonicWall Global Management System Hit by Critical RCE and Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

SonicWall has disclosed six vulnerabilities in its SonicWall Global Management System (GMS) management product, with the highest-severity issues rated Critical. The most severe flaw, CVE-2026-66147, resides in the Dispatcher Service and allows unauthenticated remote code execution through crafted requests that inject commands. A second critical issue, CVE-2026-66145, stems from improper handling of zip archive extraction and enables path traversal attacks that can read sensitive data or write arbitrary files without authentication. Both vulnerabilities received CVSSv3 base scores above 9.0. The flaws affect both the virtual appliance and Windows versions of GMS. SonicWall released an advisory on August 11 urging immediate application of the available updates.

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SonicWall has disclosed multiple critical vulnerabilities in its SonicWall Global Management System (GMS) management product and is urging customers to apply the newly released updates.

The company published security advisory SNWLID-2026-0011 on August 11, detailing six vulnerabilities that affect both the virtual appliance and Windows editions of GMS. The advisory assigns the highest severity rating of Critical to the issues.

In the Dispatcher Service, researchers identified CVE-2026-66147, which permits unauthenticated attackers to inject commands via specially crafted requests and execute arbitrary code remotely. The vulnerability received a CVSSv3 base score of 9.4.

A separate flaw, CVE-2026-66145, arises from insufficient validation during zip archive extraction. This path traversal issue allows remote attackers to read sensitive files or write arbitrary files to the system without authentication, earning a CVSSv3 base score of 9.1.

SonicWall has made patched versions available and recommends that all affected organizations update their installations as soon as possible to mitigate the risk of remote code execution.

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