Sophos Firewall User Portal and Webadmin Code Injection Vulnerability

Strike ID:
E23-1gck1
CVSS:
9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
False Positive:
f
Variants:
4
Year:
2022

Description

This strike exploits a Code Injection Vulnerability in Sophos Firewall. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of JSON keys submitted in the "json" parameter sent to the Controller endpoint. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the target server. Successfully exploiting this vulnerability could result in remote code execution with privileges of the root user. *NOTE: While running this strike in one-arm mode, four files Test1, Test2, Test3 and Test4 will be created in the /tmp/ directory of the server.

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