CVE-2020-15504

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

A SQL injection vulnerability in the user and admin web interfaces of Sophos XG Firewall v18.0 MR1 and older potentially allows an attacker to run arbitrary code remotely. The fix is built into the re-release of XG Firewall v18 MR-1 (named MR-1-Build396) and the v17.5 MR13 release. All other versions >= 17.0 have received a hotfix.

Affected products

Sophos Xg Firewall Firmware: from 17.0 through 17.5; 17.5-maintenance_release1, 17.5-maintenance_release10, 17.5-maintenance_release11, 17.5-maintenance_release12, 17.5-maintenance_release3, 17.5-maintenance_release4 (+7)

References

https://community.sophos.com/b/security-blog/posts/advisory-resolved-rce-via-sqli-cve-2020-15504
https://community.sophos.com/b/security-blog/posts/advisory-resolved-rce-via-sqli-cve-2020-15504

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