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.” SonicWall is urging customers to upgrade the SonicOS firmware of their firewalls to patch an authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-53704 (CVSS score of 8.2). The vulnerability resides in SSL VPN and SSH management and according to the vendor is “susceptible to actual exploitation.”
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