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FKIE_CVE-2020-15069

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-06-29 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:55

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Sophos XG Firewall 17.x through v17.5 MR12 allows a Buffer Overflow and remote code execution via the HTTP/S Bookmarks feature for clientless access. Hotfix HF062020.1 was published for all firewalls running v17.x.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://community.sophos.com/b/security-blog/posts/advisory-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-user-portal	Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://community.sophos.com/b/security-blog/posts/advisory-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-user-portal	Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-15069	US Government Resource

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	*
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall_firmware	17.5
sophos	xg_firewall	-

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CVE-2020-15069 (GCVE-0-2020-15069)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-29 17:30 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:35

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-07 04:55 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://community.sophos.com/b/security-blog/post…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

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CVE-2020-15069 (GCVE-0-2020-15069)

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