THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-6412
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2017-6412

Web Appliance vulnerability

CVSS
8.1
EPSS
7.5%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
In Sophos Web Appliance (SWA) before 4.3.1.2, Session Fixation could occur, aka NSWA-1310.
Affected vendor
Sophos
Affected product
Web Appliance
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/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, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-6412

  • Confirm whether Sophos Web Appliance is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-6412.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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