CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18014
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
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 configurations
• sophos sfos (<= 17.0)
• sophos sfos 17.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/24 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3612 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/128024 Vendor Advisory
- https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/b/xg-blog/posts/sfos-17-0-3-mr3-released Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/24 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3612 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/128024 Vendor Advisory
- https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/b/xg-blog/posts/sfos-17-0-3-mr3-released Vendor Advisory