CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9553
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-77
Description
The Sophos Web Appliance (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to two Remote Command Injection vulnerabilities affecting its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in the MgrReport.php (/controllers/MgrReport.php) component responsible for blocking and unblocking IP addresses from accessing the device. The device doesn't properly escape the information passed in the variables 'unblockip' and 'blockip' before calling the shell_exec() function which allows for system commands to be injected into the device. The code erroneously suggests that the information handled is protected by utilizing the variable name 'escapedips' - however this was not the case. The Sophos ID is NSWA-1258.
Affected configurations
• sophos web appliance 4.2.1.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness
References
- http://pastebin.com/DUYuN0U5 Exploit
- http://swa.sophos.com/rn/swa/concepts/ReleaseNotes_4.3.1.html Release Notes
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95853 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://community.sophos.com/products/web-appliance/b/blog/posts/release-of-swa-version-4-3-1 Release Notes
- http://pastebin.com/DUYuN0U5 Exploit
- http://swa.sophos.com/rn/swa/concepts/ReleaseNotes_4.3.1.html Release Notes
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95853 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://community.sophos.com/products/web-appliance/b/blog/posts/release-of-swa-version-4-3-1 Release Notes