CVE-2016-6597

Mobile Control Eas Proxy vulnerability

CVSS

8.6

EPSS

4.5%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Sophos EAS Proxy before 6.2.0 for Sophos Mobile Control, when Lotus Traveler is enabled, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary web-resources from the backend mail system via a request for the resource, aka an Open Reverse Proxy vulnerability.

Affected vendor

Sophos

Affected product

Mobile Control Eas Proxy

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-254

Published

2016-08-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-6597

Confirm whether Sophos Mobile Control Eas Proxy is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-6597.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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