CVE-2020-12271

10CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
Sophos
Status
Sfos
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 April 2020

Badges

💰 Ransomware👾 Exploit Exists🦅 CISA Reported

Summary

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)

CISA Reported

CISA provides regional cyber and physical services to support security and resilience across the United States. CISA monitor the most dangerious vulnerabilities and have identifed as being exploited and is known by the CISA as enabling ransomware campaigns.

The CISA's recommendation is: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

References

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

1% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
10
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • 💰

    Used in Ransomware

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • 🦅

    CISA Reported

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre DatabaseCISA Database
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