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CVE-2020-12271

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...

Basic Information

CVE State
PUBLISHED
Reserved Date
April 27, 2020
Published Date
April 27, 2020
Last Updated
February 04, 2025
Vendor
n/a
Product
n/a
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)

CVSS Scores

CVSS v3.0

10.0 - CRITICAL

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:N

SSVC Information

Exploitation
active
Automatable
Yes
Technical Impact
total

Exploit Status

Exploited in the Wild
Yes (added 2021-11-03 00:00:00 UTC) Source
Used in Malware
Yes (added 2021-11-03 00:00:00 UTC) Source

References

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.html https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412 https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/

Known Exploited Vulnerability Information

Source Added Date
CISA 2021-11-03 00:00:00 UTC