CVE-2022-3709 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A stored XSS vulnerability allows admin to super-admin privilege escalation in the Webadmin import group wizard of Sophos Firewall releases older than version 19.5 GA.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00266.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Sophos Subscribe	Xg Firewall Subscribe Xg Firewall Firmware Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:o:sophos:xg_firewall_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:sophos:xg_firewall:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-43066	A stored XSS vulnerability allows admin to super-admin privilege escalation in the Webadmin import group wizard of Sophos Firewall releases older than version 19.5 GA.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20221201-sfos-19-5-0

History

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Sophos

Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-24T20:14:18.242Z

Reserved: 2022-10-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3709

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:20:57.033Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-01T18:15:10.397

Modified: 2025-04-24T20:15:24.583

Link: CVE-2022-3709

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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