CVE-2020-12271: Sophos SFOS SQL Injection Vulnerability
In CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: Sophos SFOS SQL Injection Vulnerability.
Added , federal remediation due . Known ransomware use: Known.
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Description
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)
Vector CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:N
Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
Sophos: SFOS
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412 (opens in new tab)
- cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.html (opens in new tab)
- news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/ (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)