CVE-2024-12728 (GCVE-0-2024-12728)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-19 20:48 – Updated: 2024-12-21 04:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A weak credentials vulnerability potentially allows privileged system access via SSH to Sophos Firewall older than version 20.0 MR3 (20.0.3).
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-20 00:00 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1391 - Use of Weak Credentials
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sophos | Sophos Firewall |
Affected:
0 , < 20.0 MR3 (20.0.3)
(semver)
|
guessed |
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