CVE-2023-1671 on CISA KEV

A pre-auth command injection vulnerability in the warn-proceed handler of Sophos Web Appliance older than version 4.3.10.4 allows execution of arbitrary code.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

A pre-auth command injection vulnerability in the warn-proceed handler of Sophos Web Appliance older than version 4.3.10.4 allows execution of arbitrary code.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

03Notes & references

• www.sophos.com — https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20230404-swa-rce
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172016/Sophos-Web-Appliance-4.3.10.4-Comman…

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Sophos	Sophos Web Appliance	unspecified

06Detection

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