#VU10852 Privilege escalation in Sophos UTM

Vulnerability identifier: #VU10852

Vulnerability risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear

CVE-ID: N/A

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
Sophos UTM

Software vendor:
Sophos

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can access the 'confd' service via the localhost interface to obtain a session token and then use the session token to submit a specially crafted request via the network to '/webadmin.plx' to set the root password.

Update to version 9.508.

• https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/b/utm-blog/posts/utm-up2date-9-508-r...