We are talking about the CVE-2022-3236 issue (9.8 points on the CVSS vulnerability rating scale), which was found in the User Portal and the Sophos Firewall web admin. In fact, this bug allows attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution (RCE).
Hotfixes for all versions of Sophos Firewall affected by this bug (v19.0 MR1, 19.0.1 and older) were released back in September last year, and full patches were submitted in December. At the same time, back in the fall, the manufacturer warned that [...]
Let me remind you that in March 2022, a patch was released for the CVE-2022-1040 vulnerability, which was rated as critical on the CVSS scale (9.8 points out of 10 possible). At the time, it was reported that the bug allows remote attackers to bypass authentication through the firewall’s user portal or through the web admin panel and then execute an arbitrary code.
The vulnerability was originally discovered by an anonymous researcher who [...]