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CVE-2022-1040

Sophos Firewall Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Watch priority : UrgentCVSS 9.8 v3.1Exploited

Why this priority

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  • Présent dans le catalogue CISA KEV (exploitation confirmée)

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability in User Portal and Webadmin of Sophos Firewall allows for remote code execution.

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
SophosFirewallAll versions
SophosSophos Firewall
  • from unspecified to 18.5 MR3 included

Revision history

  1. Revision 3

  2. Revision 2

    Update : Affected versions changed

  3. Revision 1

    New record

Qualification

CVSS severity
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Technical severity score between 0 and 10, with its version (3.1, 4.0). See the glossary

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS v3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
KEV catalog
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Listed
Exploitation
Confirmed
EPSS probability
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Probability, between 0 and 1, that a vulnerability is exploited in the next 30 days, published daily by FIRST. Always dated. See the glossary

Unknown
Confidence
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Quality of the sources behind the record. It is not a risk score. See the glossary

High

Priority rules, version 1

CISA KEV catalog

Added on
31 March 2022
Federal due date
21 April 2022
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Ransomware use
Unknown

Record

Published on
25 March 2022
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-158

Sources

References

CVE-2022-1040 Sophos Firewall Authentication Bypass Vulnerability · Avanguard TACTIC