CVE-2022-1703 Command injection in SMA100

What is CVE-2022-1703?

CVE-2022-1703 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in SonicWall SMA100, published on 3 Jun 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper neutralization of special elements in the SonicWall SSL-VPN SMA100 series management interface allows a remote authenticated attacker to inject OS Commands which potentially leads to remote command execution vulnerability or denial of service (DoS) attack.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1703?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Sonicwall Sma 210 Firmware, Sonicwall Sma 410 Firmware, Sonicwall Sma 500v Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1703?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-1703 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-2022-1703 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1703 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA100

• CVE-2021-20028 SonicWall Secure Remote Access (SRA) SQL Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-40599 File upload in SMA 100 Series Critical 9.1
• CVE-2025-40597 Memory corruption in SMA 100 Series High 7.5
• CVE-2025-40596 Memory corruption in SMA 100 Series High 7.3
• CVE-2025-40598 Cross-site scripting in SMA 100 Series Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-hqg7-64v9-2fg6.