CVE-2020-12271

Estado: AnalizadaCrítica (9.8)⚠ Explotación activa

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)

CVSS

Versión: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Puntuación base: 9.8

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 42%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 99
Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

CISA KEV — explotada activamente

Añadida al catálogo: 3/11/2021
Plazo de remediación: 3/5/2022
Uso conocido en ransomware: Known

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1190 Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access85 %
Impacto principalT1059.007 JavaScriptexecution80 %
Impacto secundarioT1005 Data from Local Systemcollection90 %
Impacto secundarioT1552.007 Container APIcredential access85 %

SQL injection (CWE-89) en servicio expuesto (HTTPS/WAN) sin autenticación previa (AV:N/PR:N) permite RCE y exfiltración de credenciales locales según descripción oficial.

Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.

🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas

Privileged Account Management Network Segmentation Limit Access to Resource Over Network Vulnerability Scanning User Account Management Restrict Web-Based Content

Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Sophos — Sfos

CWE

CWE-89
CWE-89

Referencias

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