Sophos Firewall and UTM
CVE-2020-12271: SFOS SQL Injection
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.
Published
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Affected and fixed versions
| Product / branch | Fixed in |
|---|---|
| n/a n/a | See the advisory |
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What it is
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)
Exploitation
CISA lists this CVE as exploited in the wild since 3 Nov 2021, including in ransomware campaigns.
Sources
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