CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-5129 — Sonicwall Sma1000 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

A vulnerability in the SonicWall SMA1000 HTTP Extraweb server allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause HTTP server crash which leads to Denial of Service. This vulnerability affected SMA1000 Version 12.1.0-06411 and earlier.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-03-26
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-248, CWE-444

Affected products

  • sonicwall / sma1000_firmware

Matched remediation archetype

HTTP request smuggling and message-boundary ambiguity

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Check exposure

  • Inventory every proxy, CDN, gateway, load balancer, service mesh, and application server hop on affected request paths.
  • Compare documented parsing and normalization behavior for message length, transfer coding, duplicate headers, and protocol translation.
  • Identify connection reuse and which downstream services trust headers added by intermediaries.

Remediate safely

  • Update affected intermediaries and origin servers and align them on a single standards-compliant request framing policy.
  • Reject ambiguous length, transfer-coding, duplicate, malformed, and unsupported framing before forwarding.
  • Normalize or remove hop-by-hop and identity headers at one controlled boundary and add multi-hop regression tests.

Authoritative sources

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