CVE-2017-6182 describes a critical remote command injection vulnerability affecting Sophos Web Appliance (SWA) versions prior to 4.3.1.2. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit a flaw in the report generation interface to execute arbitrary commands on the appliance. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a severe risk with complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no user interaction or privileges. While not listed on the KEV catalog, a Metasploit module (EDB-42332) exists for this vulnerability, suggesting readily available exploit code, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sophos:web_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/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.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.