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CVE-2020-12271

Published: Apr 27, 2020

Modified: Oct 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

10.0

CRITICAL

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)

VendorProductVersions

n/a

n/a

affected
n/a

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:N

Attack Complexity

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Availability

High

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Privileges Required

None

Scope

Changed

User Interaction

None

References

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