CVE-2020-12271

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)

From the Tenable Blog

CVE-2020-12271: Zero-Day SQL Injection Vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall Exploited in the Wild

Published: 2020-04-27

Sophos pushes a hotfix to address a SQL injection vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild.

References

https://thehackernews.com/2024/12/sophos-fixes-3-critical-firewall-flaws.html

https://www.databreachtoday.com/us-indicts-sanctions-alleged-chinese-sophos-firewall-hacker-a-27014

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-sanctions-chinese-firm-for-hacking-firewalls-in-ragnarok-ransomware-attacks/

https://databreaches.net/2024/12/10/china-based-hacker-charged-for-conspiring-to-develop-and-deploy-malware-that-exploited-tens-of-thousands-of-firewalls-worldwide/

https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-seeking-information-on-chinese-hackers-targeting-sophos-firewalls/

https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2024/10/31/pacific-rim-timeline/

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/a-look-inside-the-ransomware-ecosystem

https://web.archive.org/web/20211025233339/https://twitter.com/pancak3lullz/status/1452679527197560837

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/2020-threat-landscape-retrospective

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-tried-and-failed-to-install-ransomware-using-a-zero-day-in-sophos-firewalls/

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-12271-zero-day-sql-injection-vulnerability-in-sophos-xg-firewall-exploited-in-the-wild

https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.html

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3