CVE-2013-2641

medium

Published 2014-03-18 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in patience.cgi in Sophos Web Appliance before 3.7.8.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the id parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-24932 webapps linux

SEC Consult · 2013-04-08

Sophos Web Protection Appliance 3.7.8.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_admin/http/sophos_wpa_traversal rank 300

Sophos Web Protection Appliance patience.cgi Directory Traversal

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.