Sophos Firewall up to 21.0 User Portal code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Sophos Firewall up to 21.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component User Portal. Executing a manipulation can lead to code injection. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-12729. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Sophos Firewall up to 21.0. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component User Portal. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A post-auth code injection vulnerability in the User Portal allows authenticated users to execute code remotely in Sophos Firewall older than version 21.0 MR1 (21.0.1).

The advisory is shared for download at sophos.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-12729 since 12/17/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

Applying the patch 21.0 MR1 is able to eliminate this problem.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Remote: Yes

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Patch: 21.0 MR1

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12/17/2024 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: sophos.com

Advisory: sophos.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-12729 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-12729
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-289036

Entryinfo

Created: 12/19/2024 23:00
Updated: 11/12/2025 20:35
Changes: 12/19/2024 23:00 (65), 11/12/2025 20:35 (1)
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