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CVE-2020-5135

80
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-5135 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in SonicOS that affects SonicWall Gen 6 and Gen 7 firewalls. This flaw allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause Denial of Service and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending a malicious request. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 99/100, it presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite a lack of public exploit code on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.0.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sonicwall:sonicos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.5.0.0, <= 6.5.1.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sonicwall:sonicos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.5.4.0, <= 6.5.4.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sonicwall:sonicos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sonicwall:sonicos:7.0.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 6.5.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sonicwall:sonicosv:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
24.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 15, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2456 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
psirt.global.sonicwall.com / vuln-detail/SNWLID-2020-0010
Vendor Advisory