CVE-2022-3696 is a post-authentication code injection vulnerability affecting Sophos Firewall releases older than version 19.5 GA, allowing authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code within the Webadmin interface. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability presents a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, assuming an attacker has administrative credentials. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is currently unavailable, and community discussion and media coverage are limited.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 19.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sophos:xg_firewall_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.