Appliance Details
Sophos XG Firewall brings a fresh new approach to the way you manage your firewall, respond to threats, and monitor what’s happening on your network.
Vulnerability
Sophos Firewall could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an authentication bypass vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin.
Identification
By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
POST /userportal/Controller?mode=8700&operation=1&datagrid=179&json={"x":"test"}
Detection
By turning this into a traffic file and matching rule, we are able to detect attempts to perform remote code execution on an affected system.
Coverage
Idappcom has created signature 8022689 for this vulnerability.
References
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