Unrated severityCISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Apr 27, 2020· Updated Oct 21, 2025
CVE-2020-12271
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)
Affected products
1- Sophos/SFOSdescription
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
3- community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412mitrex_refsource_MISC
- cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
- news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/mitrex_refsource_MISC
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