CVE-2020-12271
Sophos SFOS SQL Injection Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
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CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12271
Description
A SQL injection issue was found in SFOS 17.0, 17.1, 17.5, and 18.0 before 2020-04-25 on Sophos XG Firewall devices, as exploited in the wild in April 2020. This affected devices configured with either the administration (HTTPS) service or the User Portal exposed on the WAN zone. A successful attack may have caused remote code execution that exfiltrated usernames and hashed passwords for the local device admin(s), portal admins, and user accounts used for remote access (but not external Active Directory or LDAP passwords)
Severity
CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:NExploitation Context
as of October 14, 2026- CISA added CVE-2020-12271 to the KEV catalog 555 days after its CVE record was published.
- It is one of 7 Sophos entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and the only one added in 2021.
- Its current EPSS score (42.4%) is higher than that of 47% of CISA KEV entries.
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| - | - | n/a |
References
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