KLA10336 Multiple vulnerabilities in Sophos Web Appliance

Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been found in Sophos Web Appliance. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary commands or change admin password. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities

1. Vectors related to the netinterface configuration page can be exploited remotely via a specially designed address parameter;
2. Vectors related to the change password dialog can be exploited remotely via a specially designed request.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

Sophos-Web-Appliance

CVE list

CVE-2014-2849 high

CVE-2014-2850 high

Solution

Update to latest version

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

• PE

Privilege escalation. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing by abuser actions, which are normally disallowed for current role.

Affected Products

• Sophos Web Appliance versions 3.8.1.1 and earlier