CVE-2020-12271

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)

Severity scores

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• 10.0CVSS 3.0, Criticalfrom the CNA (mitre)CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:N

What to do

• Apply updates per vendor instructions.CISA KEV required action

Historical context and remediation

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Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

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Affected products

Timeline

1. 27 Apr 2020 Published
2. 3 Nov 2021 CVE-2020-12271 added to CISA KEV
3. 3 Nov 2021 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue

Weakness

• CWE-89

References

• cwe.mitre.orgx_refsource_MISC
• community.sophos.comx_refsource_MISC
• news.sophos.comx_refsource_MISC