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CVE-2020-12271

critical · 9.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2021-11-03Remediation due 2022-05-03

A SQL injection issue was found in SFOS 17.0, 17.1, 17.5, and 18.0 before 2020-04-25 on Sophos XG Firewall devices, as exploited in the wild in April 2020. This affected devices configured with either the administration (HTTPS) service or the User Portal exposed on the WAN zone. A successful attack may have caused remote code execution that exfiltrated usernames and hashed passwords for the local device admin(s), portal admins, and user accounts used for remote access (but not external Active Directory or LDAP passwords)

9.8
CVSS
42.4%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
99th
EPSS percentile
2020-04-27
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-89

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
sophossfos17.0
sophossfos17.1
sophossfos17.5
sophossfos18.0
sophosxg_firewallall versions

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