CVE-2020-12271
Sophos SFOS SQL Injection Vulnerability
IN CISA KEV
Sophos Firewall operating system (SFOS) firmware contains a SQL injection vulnerability when configured with either the administration (HTTPS) service or the User Portal is exposed on the WAN zone. Successful exploitation may cause remote code execution to exfiltrate usernames and hashed passwords for the local device admin(s), portal admins, and user accounts used for remote access (but not external Active Directory or LDAP passwords).
- Vendor
- Sophos
- Product
- SFOS
- CVSS
- No score recorded (no NVD record loaded for this entry)
- CWE
- CWE-89
- Published
- Not recorded
- NVD modified
- Not recorded
CISA KEV
- Date added
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
EPSS
42.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (percentile 98th)
FIRST EPSS, updated 17 Oct 2026. About EPSS
CVSS is severity, EPSS is likelihood, KEV means already exploited. EPSS is a statistical probability, not a certainty: a low score does not make a bug safe, and a high one does not prove it is being exploited.
Data last updated 18 Oct 2026. Sources: NVD API 2.0, CISA KEV catalog, FIRST EPSS. Links: NVD, CISA KEV. Metadata only. ThreatWire does not host exploit code.