WatchGuard Fireware OS up to 11.12.4+541730/12.5.13/12.11.4/2025.1.2 Management Web Interface xml injection

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in WatchGuard Fireware OS up to 11.12.4+541730/12.5.13/12.11.4/2025.1.2. Affected is an unknown function of the component Management Web Interface. Such manipulation leads to xml injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-1545. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in WatchGuard Fireware OS up to 11.12.4+541730/12.5.13/12.11.4/2025.1.2. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Management Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a xml injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-91. The product does not properly neutralize special elements that are used in XML, allowing attackers to modify the syntax, content, or commands of the XML before it is processed by an end system. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

An XPath Injection vulnerability in WatchGuard Fireware OS may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to retrieve sensitive information from the Firebox configuration through an exposed authentication or management web interface. This vulnerability only affects Firebox systems that have at least one authentication hotspot configured.This issue affects Fireware OS 11.11 up to and including 11.12.4+541730, 12.0 up to and including 12.11.4, 12.5 up to and including 12.5.13, and 2025.1 up to and including 2025.1.2.

The advisory is shared for download at watchguard.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-1545 since 02/21/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 12/11/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1505.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WatchGuard

Name

• Fireware OS

Version

• 11.12.4+541730
• 12.5.0
• 12.5.1
• 12.5.2
• 12.5.3
• 12.5.4
• 12.5.5
• 12.5.6
• 12.5.7
• 12.5.8
• 12.5.9
• 12.5.10
• 12.5.11
• 12.5.12
• 12.5.13
• 12.11.0
• 12.11.1
• 12.11.2
• 12.11.3
• 12.11.4
• 2025.1.0
• 2025.1.1
• 2025.1.2

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• commercial

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