SonicWall has patched a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-40766) in its next-gen firewalls that could allow remote attackers unauthorized access to resources and, in specific conditions, to crash the appliances. About CVE-2024-40766 CVE-2024-40766 is an improper access control vulnerability in the “SonicWall SonicOS management access”, the company says. “This issue affects SonicWall Firewall Gen 5 and Gen 6 devices, as well as Gen 7 devices running SonicOS 7.0.1-5035 and older versions.” Security updates fixing the vulnerability are … More

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