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CVE-2025-7624

An SQL injection vulnerability in the legacy (transparent) SMTP proxy of Sophos Firewall versions older than 21.0 MR2 (21.0.2) can lead to remote code execution, if a quarantining policy is active for Email and SFOS was upgraded from a version older…

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 10.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.5%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

An SQL injection vulnerability in the legacy (transparent) SMTP proxy of Sophos Firewall versions older than 21.0 MR2 (21.0.2) can lead to remote code execution, if a quarantining policy is active for Email and SFOS was upgraded from a version older than 21.0 GA.

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
10.51% probability · 96th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-89
Affected
sophos/firewall firmware
Source
security-alert@sophos.com
EPSS trend
0%8%15%22 October 2026: 10.51%26 October 2026: 10.51%22 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 10.5% on 22 October 2026 to 10.5% on 26 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.