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Sophos Web Appliance Pre-Authentication Command Injection (CVE-2023-1671)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 176075

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Synopsis

A web appliance is affected by a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability.

Description

The remote Sophos Web Appliance is affected by a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request, to execute arbitrary commands.

Solution

Upgrade Sophos Web Appliance to version 4.3.10.4 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?50621579

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 176075

File Name: sophos_web_appliance_CVE-2023-1671.nbin

Version: 1.15

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 5/18/2023

Updated: 4/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1671

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:sophos:web_appliance

Required KB Items: installed_sw/sophos_web_protection

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Exploited by Nessus: true

Patch Publication Date: 4/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 12/7/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1671