CVE-2020-12271
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-27 04:00
Modified
2024-08-04 11:48
Severity ?
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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)
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
n/an/a
CISA Known exploited vulnerability
Data from the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Date added: 2021-11-03

Due date: 2022-05-03

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Used in ransomware: Known

Notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12271

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