CVE-2016-9553
The Sophos Web Appliance (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to two Remote Command Injection vulnerabilities affecting its web administrative interface. These...
- Published
- Jan 28, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Dec 12, 2016
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:CModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 96.9%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1xort · php · Dec 12, 2016
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