CVE-2022-3236
Sophos Firewall Code Injection Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 14 October 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
A code injection vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin allows a remote attacker to execute code in Sophos Firewall version v19.0 MR1 and older.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 98.91% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 23 September 2022 · due 14 October 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-94
- Affected
- sophos/firewall
- Source
- security-alert@sophos.com
EPSS 98.9% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20220923-sfos-rce; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3236
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.