CVE-2017-6182

critical
Published 2017-03-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

In Sophos Web Appliance (SWA) before 4.3.1.2, a section of the machine's interface responsible for generating reports was vulnerable to remote command injection via functions, aka NSWA-1304.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” 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-42332 webapps json verified
xort ยท 2017-07-18

Sophos Web Appliance 4.3.0.2 - 'trafficType' Remote Command Injection (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sophosweb_appliance{"endIncluding":"4.3.1.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-78

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

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