An authenticated administrator can trigger a denial-of-service condition in the Fireware Management Web UI by sending malformed or crafted data to the put_data endpoint, which performs unsafe deserialization of the attacker-supplied input.
Weakness
The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireware | Watchguard | 2025.1 (including) | 2026.2.1 (excluding) |
Potential Mitigations
- Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
- An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.