CVE-2014-2849

high

Published 2014-04-11 · 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

9.5

Description

The Change Password dialog box (change_password) in Sophos Web Appliance before 3.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to change the admin user password via a crafted request.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-32789 remote unix verified

Metasploit · 2014-04-10

Sophos Web Protection Appliance Interface - (Authenticated) Arbitrary Command Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/http/sophos_wpa_iface_exec rank 600

Sophos Web Protection Appliance Interface Authenticated Arbitrary Command Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
sophos	web_appliance_firmware	`3.7.8`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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