Sophos Patches Web Security Appliance for Critical Code Execution Vulnerability

Sophos Patches Web Security Appliance for Critical Code Execution Vulnerability

Sophos released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Sophos Web Appliance, including a critical flaw that could result in code execution.

The Sophos Web Appliance is a web security solution that enables administrators to define web access policies by users or groups and enforce them as necessary from a single interface. The warning page handler of the appliance contained the critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-1671 (CVSS score of 9.8), which could be exploited without authentication.

According to Sophos, the flaw “allows execution of arbitrary code through a pre-auth command injection vulnerability in the warn-proceed handler.”

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