THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-6183
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2017-6183

Web Appliance vulnerability

CVSS
7.2
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
In Sophos Web Appliance (SWA) before 4.3.1.2, a section of the machine's configuration utilities for adding (and detecting) Active Directory servers was vulnerable to remote command injection, aka NSWA-1314.
Affected vendor
Sophos
Affected product
Web Appliance
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2017-03-30

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-6183

  • Confirm whether Sophos Web Appliance is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-6183.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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