SonicWall Issues Patch for Critical Bug Affecting its Analytics and GMS Products

Network security company SonicWall on Friday rolled out fixes to
mitigate a critical SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability affecting
its Analytics On-Prem and Global Management System (GMS)
products.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22280^[1], is rated 9.4 for
severity on the CVSS scoring system and stems from what the company
describes is an “improper neutralization of special elements” used
in an SQL command that could lead to an unauthenticated SQL
injection.

“Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in
user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those
inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data,”
MITRE notes^[2]
in its description of SQL injection.

“This can be used to alter query logic to bypass security
checks, or to insert additional statements that modify the back-end
database, possibly including execution of system commands.”

H4lo and Catalpa of DBappSecurity HAT Lab have been credited
with discovering and reporting the flaws which affect 2.5.0.3-2520 and earlier versions^[3] of Analytics On-Prem as
well as all versions of GMS prior to and including
9.3.1-SP2-Hotfix1^[4].

Organizations relying on vulnerable appliances are recommended
to upgrade to Analytics 2.5.0.3-2520-Hotfix1 and GMS
9.3.1-SP2-Hotfix-2.

“There is no workaround available for this vulnerability,”
SonicWall said. “However, the likelihood of exploitation may be
significantly reduced by incorporating a Web Application Firewall
(WAF) to block SQLi attempts.”