CVE-2020-12271
highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.424 · 99 %ileEURUUSadded 2021-11-03remediate by 2022-05-03
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EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Sophos SFOS SQL Injection Vulnerability
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)
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–10
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affected products (9)
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also known as (4)
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references (12)
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- https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412cnnvd
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.htmlcnnvd
- https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12271cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Sophos-XG-Firewall-SQL-injection-32106cnnvd
- https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412enisa_euvd
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/enisa_euvd
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