CVE-2023-1671 is a critical pre-authentication command injection vulnerability (CWE-77) affecting Sophos Web Appliance versions older than 4.3.10.4, allowing for arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw is easily exploitable over the network without authentication, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and has publicly available exploit code, including an ExploitDB entry and Nuclei templates, garnering significant community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.3.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sophos:web_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.