CVE-2020-12271: Sophos SFOS SQL Injection Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

Sophos Firewall operating system (SFOS) firmware contains a SQL injection vulnerability when configured with either the administration (HTTPS) service or the User Portal is exposed on the WAN zone. Successful exploitation may cause remote code execution to exfiltrate 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).

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12271

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-89. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12271
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog