CVE-2020-12271

high-risk
Published 2020-04-27

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)

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88.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 11% of all CVEs
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CISA KEV: actively exploited in the wild
On the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — federal agencies must patch
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Affected Vendors

Sophos

References (7)

Vendor Advisory https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412
Third Party Advisory https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.html
Exploit https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/
Vendor Advisory https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412
Third Party Advisory https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.html
Exploit https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/
US Government Resource https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-...
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 27/34 · High
Exposure 10/34 · Low