Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Jan 12, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-18014
CVE-2017-18014
Description
An NC-25986 issue was discovered in the Logging subsystem of Sophos XG Firewall with SFOS before 17.0.3 MR3. An unauthenticated user can trigger a persistent XSS vulnerability found in the WAF log page (Control Center -> Log Viewer -> in the filter option "Web Server Protection") in the webadmin interface, and execute any action available to the webadmin of the firewall (e.g., creating a new user, enabling SSH, or adding an SSH authorized key). The WAF log page will execute the "User-Agent" parameter in the HTTP POST request.
Affected products
1- Range: <17.0.3 MR3
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3612nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/24nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/128024nvdVendor Advisory
- community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/b/xg-blog/posts/sfos-17-0-3-mr3-releasednvdVendor Advisory
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