A Pre-authentication SSRF vulnerability exists in the SMA1000 Appliance Work Place interface due to an unintended alternate access path.

cisa required action Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.

1. 2026-09-01 CISA SSVC: exploitation active
2. 2026-09-01 First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/http/sonicwall_sma1000_couchdb_rce)
3. 2026-09-01 Published
4. 2026-09-02 Added to CISA KEV
5. 2026-09-05 CISA patch deadline

Added

2 mo ago (2026-09-02)

Patch by

2026-09-05 (2 mo ago)

Ransomware

Not known

Required action

Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.

Vendor, product

SonicWall, SMA1000 Appliances

CISA name

SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability

Exploitation

Active, exploited in the wild

Automatable

yes

Technical impact

total

Assessed

2 mo ago (2026-09-01)

8.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

• Metasploit exploit/linux/http/sonicwall_sma1000_couchdb_rce SonicWall SMA1000 WorkPlace SSRF to Root Remote Code Execution metasploit exploit, great rank, 2026-09-01
• Nuclei template SonicWall SMA1000 WorkPlace - Unauthenticated SSRF to CouchDB nuclei detection template

• SonicWall SMA1000

Weakness

• CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery
• CWE-441 Unintended Proxy or Intermediary

• psirt.global.sonicwall.com /vuln-detail/SNWLID-2026-0016

  vendor-advisory

• cisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-83548

  government-resource, us-government-resource

• CVE List CVE-2026-83548
• NVD CVE-2026-83548

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.