CVE-2022-3709 is a high-severity stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Sophos Firewall releases older than version 19.5 GA. This flaw allows an authenticated administrator to escalate privileges to super-admin within the Webadmin import group wizard. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.4 (High), indicating that it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The CVE has also received minimal community discussion and media coverage.
| 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:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.4 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.