CVE-2020-5146 Command injection in SMA100

What is CVE-2020-5146?

CVE-2020-5146 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in SonicWall SMA100, published on 9 Jan 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in SonicWall SMA100 appliance allow an authenticated management-user to perform OS command injection using HTTP POST parameters. This vulnerability affected SMA100 Appliance version 10.2.0.2-20sv and earlier.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5146?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sonicwall Sma 100 Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2020-5146?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5146 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2020-5146 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5146 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA100

• CVE-2021-20016 SonicWall SSLVPN SMA100 SQL Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-7483 SonicWall SMA100 Directory Traversal Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2019-7481 SonicWall SMA100 SQL Injection Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2019-7482 Memory corruption in SMA100 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-32819 Path traversal in SMA100 High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6w86-cqhf-wpxg.