Sophos Web Appliance Entries os command injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Sophos Web Appliance. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation of the argument Entries leads to os command injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2013-2642. In addition, an exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Sophos Web Appliance (affected version not known). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument entries with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Sophos Web Appliance before 3.7.8.2 allows (1) remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the client-ip parameter to the Block page, when using the user_workstation variable in a customized template, and remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (2) url parameter to the Diagnostic Tools functionality or (3) entries parameter to the Local Site List functionality.

The weakness was presented 03/18/2014 (Website). The advisory is available at sec-consult.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-2642 since 03/22/2013. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (24932). See VDB-8162, VDB-8163, VDB-8164 and VDB-8165 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Os command injection
CWE: CWE-78 / CWE-77 / CWE-74
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OpenVAS ID: 802281
OpenVAS Name: Sophos Web Protection Appliance Web Interface Multiple Vulnerabilities
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03/18/2014 +361 days 🔍
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03/24/2015 +371 days 🔍
05/08/2026 +4063 days 🔍

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Vendor: sophos.com

Advisory: sec-consult.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-2642 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-2642
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-66698
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 05/08/2026 12:26
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (42), 02/26/2018 08:05 (14), 12/14/2024 22:39 (18), 05/08/2026 12:26 (1)
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