CVE-2013-1359
An Authentication Bypass Vulnerability exists in DELL SonicWALL Analyzer 7.0, Global Management System (GMS) 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, and 7.0;…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 89.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An Authentication Bypass Vulnerability exists in DELL SonicWALL Analyzer 7.0, Global Management System (GMS) 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, and 7.0; Universal Management Appliance (UMA) 5.1, 6.0, and 7.0 and ViewPoint 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 via the skipSessionCheck parameter to the UMA interface (/appliance/), which could let a remote malicious user obtain access to the root account.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- SonicWALL GMS 6 Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/sonicwall_gms_uploadRank excellentdisclosed 17 Jan 2012
Exploit-DB2 entries
- SonicWALL Gms 6 - Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24322remote, multiplepublished 24 Jan 2013Verified
- SonicWALL GMS/VIEWPOINT 6.x Analyzer 7.x - Remote Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24204webapps, multiplepublished 18 Jan 2013Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 89.4% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57445 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24204 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24322 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028007 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81367 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/author/7547/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://fortiguard.com/encyclopedia/ips/35264/multiple-sonicwall-products-authentication-bypass-vulns (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/125 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-1398 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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