CVE-2022-1040

9.8

CVSS
Critical

PUBLISHED

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin allows a remote attacker to execute code in Sophos Firewall version v18.5...

Exploited in the wild Remote Low complexity No user interaction

Vendor: Sophos
Product: Sophos Firewall
Published: Mar 25, 2022
EPSS: —

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin allows a remote attacker to execute code in Sophos Firewall version v18.5 MR3 and older.

cisa nuclei_scanner

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 9.8 Critical

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

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-03-31 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation: active
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: total

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CISA	Mar 31, 2022

Scanner integrations

Scanner	Reference	Detected
Nuclei	https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-1040.yaml	Apr 25, 2025

Potential proof of concepts

These PoCs are unverified and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

jackson5sec/CVE-2022-1040

github · Created 2022-10-30 19:20:57 UTC · 2 stars

This vulnerability allows an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the firewall management space by bypassing authentication

killvxk/CVE-2022-1040

github · Created 2022-05-06 08:56:04 UTC · 16 stars

may the poc with you

Vulnerability detail