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Sophos Update

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Warning Date

Severity Level

Warning Number

Target Sector

28 April, 2020

● Critical

2020-1182

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Description:

Sophos has released security update to address a vulnerability in the following product:

  • All versions of XG Firewall/SFOS (both physical and virtual firewalls).

Threats:

Remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing arbitrary SQL queries in database.

Best practice and Recommendations:

The CERT team encourages users to update the firewall to the hotfix SFOS 17.0, 17.1, 17.5, 18.0. After the hotfix is applied:

  1. Reset device administrator accounts.
  2. Reboot the XG device(s).
  3. Reset passwords for all local user accounts.

Saudi CERT also recommends enabling the automatic installation of hotfixes:

  1. Navigate to Backup & firmware
  2. Firmwar
  3. Hotfix
  4. Enable Allow automatic installation of hotfixes

For more details:

Last updated at 28 April, 2020

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