CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2025-7624

Firewall Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
7.2%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
An SQL injection vulnerability in the legacy (transparent) SMTP proxy of Sophos Firewall versions older than 21.0 MR2 (21.0.2) can lead to remote code execution, if a quarantining policy is active for Email and SFOS was upgraded from a version older than 21.0 GA.
Affected vendor
Sophos
Affected product
Firewall Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2025-07-21

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, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.2% 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-2025-7624

  • Confirm whether Sophos Firewall Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2025-7624.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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