How severe is CVE-2024-53704?

CVE-2024-53704 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.2 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 95.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2024-53704: SonicWall SonicOS SSLVPN Improper Authentication

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

SonicWall SonicOS SSLVPN Improper Authentication Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2025-02-18

Remediation due

2025-03-11

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0003 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53704

Description

An Improper Authentication vulnerability in the SSLVPN authentication mechanism allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.2 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
SonicWall	SonicOS	7.1.1-7058 and older versions 7.1.2-7019 8.0.0-8035

References

1 Links

Vendor advisories

https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2025-0003

Record Details

Published

2025-01-09

Last updated

2026-08-04

Assigner (CNA)

sonicwall

Credited to

Daan Keuper, Thijs Alkemade and Khaled Nassar of Computest Security through Trend Micro (Zero Day Initiative)

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