OS Command Injection in Sophos Firewall - CVE-2025-7382
Published: July 22, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU113098
CSH Severity: Critical
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-7382
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation on High Availability (HA) auxiliary devices, if OTP authentication for the admin user is enabled. A remote unauthenticated attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
Sophos Firewall
How to mitigate CVE-2025-7382
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sophos Firewall - update to 21.0 MR2