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CVE-2020-12271

CRITICALCISA KEV

9.8

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)

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published4/27/2020

Last Modified11/7/2025

Sourcekev

Honeypot Sightings0

CISA KEV

VendorSophos

ProductSFOS

Vulnerability NameSophos SFOS SQL Injection Vulnerability

KEV Date Added2021-11-03

Remediation Due Date2022-05-03

Ransomware UseKnown

Affected Products

sophos:sfossophos:xg_firewall

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-89CWE-89

References

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412(cve@mitre.org)

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/(cve@mitre.org)

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-12271(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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