{"cve":"CVE-2020-12271","nvd":{"published":"2020-04-27T04:15:10.553","modified":"2026-06-17T02:51:32.573","status":"Analyzed","description":"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_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.8},"cwes":["CWE-89"],"references":["https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412","https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.html","https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/04/26/asnarok/","https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412","https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/89.html"],"products":["sophos:sfos"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:04:18.695612450+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2020-12271","score":0.42434,"percentile":0.98704,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":{"cve":"CVE-2020-12271","date_added":"2021-11-03","due_date":"2022-05-03","vendor":"Sophos","product":"SFOS","known_ransomware":true},"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}