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CVE-2016-9682

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 23.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

The SonicWall Secure Remote Access server (version 8.1.0.2-14sv) is vulnerable to two Remote Command Injection vulnerabilities in its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in the diagnostics CGI (/cgi-bin/diagnostics) component responsible for emailing out information about the state of the system. The application doesn't properly escape the information passed in the 'tsrDeleteRestartedFile' or 'currentTSREmailTo' variables before making a call to system(), allowing for remote command injection. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the nobody user account.

Affected products

• Dell Sonicwall Secure Remote Access Server: 8.1.0.2-14sv

References

• http://documents.software.dell.com/sonicwall-sma-100-series/8.1.0.7/release-notes/resolved-issues?ParentProduct=868
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96375
• https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2016-0003
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42342/
• http://documents.software.dell.com/sonicwall-sma-100-series/8.1.0.7/release-notes/resolved-issues?ParentProduct=868
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96375
• https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2016-0003
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42342/

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