It’s 2024 and Over 178,000 SonicWall Firewalls are Publicly Exploitable

Published

2024-01-15 00:00

Collected

2026-07-08 00:16

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id: 3933
title: "It’s 2024 and Over 178,000 SonicWall Firewalls are Publicly Exploitable"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/its-2024-and-over-178-000-sonicwall-firewalls-are-publicly-exploitable"
published_at: "2024-01-15T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["rce", "attack-surface", "denial-of-service", "patch-management", "sonicwall", "cve-2022-22274", "cve-2023-0656", "firewall-security"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3933"
lang: en
---

# It’s 2024 and Over 178,000 SonicWall Firewalls are Publicly Exploitable

## Summary

Bishop Fox found 178,637 of 233,984 internet-exposed SonicWall NGFW devices (76%) vulnerable to CVE-2022-22274 and CVE-2023-0656, unauthenticated DoS issues sharing one root cause; upgrade urged.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2024-01-15T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/its-2024-and-over-178-000-sonicwall-firewalls-are-publicly-exploitable
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3933