Description
An arbitrary file writing vulnerability in the Secure PDF eXchange (SPX) feature of Sophos Firewall versions older than 21.0 MR2 (21.0.2) can lead to pre-auth remote code execution, if a specific configuration of SPX is enabled in combination with the firewall running in High Availability (HA) mode.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SOPHOS
- Published
- 7/21/2025
- Last Modified
- 8/18/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
sophos : firewall_firmware
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