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)
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{'dateAdded': '2021-11-03'}

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:35:45.408Z

Reserved: 2020-04-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-12271

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T11:48:58.362Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-04-27T04:15:10.553

Modified: 2025-11-07T19:32:18.900

Link: CVE-2020-12271

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