Improper Signature Verification of Active Update Files

Improper Signature Verification of Active Update Files

Advisory ID CVE Number Date discovered Severity Advisory revision
STORM-2026-032 08/03/2026 medium v1

Vulnerability details

A failure has been identified in the SNS during dynamic data files signature check.

Impacted products

ProductsSeverityDetail
Stormshield Network Security medium SNS is impacted.

Revisions

Version Date Description
v1 10/16/2026 Initial release


Stormshield Network Security

CVSS v3.1 Overall Score: 6.7      

Analysis

Impacted version

A logic error in the signature verification routine resulting in acceptance of unauthenticated dynamic data update during Autoupdate routine.

  • SNS 5.1.0 to 5.1.3
  • SNS 5.0.0 to 5.0.9
  • SNS 4.8.0 to 4.8.19
  • SNS 4.3.0 to 4.3.44

 

Workaround solution

Solution

  • Use only official Stormshield update servers or SMC mirror servers, if configured, ensuring that HTTPS is enabled.
  • If you use custom update servers, ensure that HTTPS is enabled and verify that the SHA-256 hashes of the files hosted on your servers match those obtained from the official Stormshield update servers.

The following updates will fix this vulnerability:

  • SNS 5.1.4 EA
  • SNS 5.0.10
  • SNS 4.8.20 LTSB

 



Attack Vector Attack Complexity Privileges Required User Interaction Scope Confidentiality Impact Integrity Impact Availability impact
Adjacent Network High None None Unchanged High High High
CVSS Base score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Exploit Code Maturity Remediation Level Report Confidence
Proof of concept code Official fix Confirmed
CVSS Temporal score: 6.7 CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)
Attack Vector (MAV) Attack Complexity (MAC) Privileges Required (MPR) User Interaction (MUI) Scope (MS)
Adjacent Network High None None Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact (MC) Integrity Impact (MI) Availability Impact (MA)
High High High
Confidentiality Requirement (CR) Integrity Requirement (IR) Availability Requirement (AR)
High High High
CVSS Environmental score: 6.7 CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C/CR:H/IR:H/AR:H/MAV:A/MAC:H/MPR:N/MUI:N/MS:U/MC:H/MI:H/MA:H)


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