Sophos Web Appliance Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

BID:66734

Info

Sophos Web Appliance Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 66734
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2014-2849
CVE-2014-2850
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 08 2014 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 17 2014 01:09AM
Credit: Brandon Perry
Vulnerable: Sophos Web Appliance 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Sophos Web Appliance Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Sophos Web Appliance is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability and remote code-execution vulnerability.

Attackers can leverage these issues to gain root privileges and execute arbitrary code. Successfully exploiting these issues will result in the complete compromise of affected computers.

Versions prior to Sophos Web Appliance 3.8.2 are vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

Sophos Web Appliance Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

The following metasploit module is available:

Solution / Fix

Sophos Web Appliance Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

References

Sophos Web Appliance Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

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