Appliance Details
Sophos XG Firewall brings a fresh new approach to the way you manage your firewall, respond to threats, and monitor what’s happening on your network.
Vulnerability
Sophos Firewall could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an authentication bypass vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin.
Identification
By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
POST /userportal/Controller?mode=8700&operation=1&datagrid=179&json={"x":"test"}Detection
By turning this into a traffic file and matching rule, we are able to detect attempts to perform remote code execution on an affected system.
Coverage
Idappcom has created signature 8022689 for this vulnerability.
References
Traffic IQ
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