Advisory Details

April 8th, 2014

Sophos Web Appliance Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2014-2849
CVSS SCORE	8.5, AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	Sophos
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Web Appliance
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Sophos Web Appliance. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaws exist within the change_password and netinterface functions of the web appliance. The first flaw will allow for an unprivileged user to change the admin's password and a remote code execution vulnerability exists when updating the network interface. This allows for an attacker to execute under root privileges.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Sophos has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/120230.aspx
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2014-01-05 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2014-04-08 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Brandon Perry

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