01 Record
CVE-2017-18014
An NC-25986 issue was discovered in the Logging subsystem of Sophos XG Firewall with SFOS before 17.0.3 MR3. An unauthenticated user can trigger a persistent XSS vulnerability found in the WAF log
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
An NC-25986 issue was discovered in the Logging subsystem of Sophos XG Firewall with SFOS before 17.0.3 MR3. An unauthenticated user can trigger a persistent XSS vulnerability found in the WAF log
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.30% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-01-12 17:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 21:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-01-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3b158cd0181226fe732d9393cf5981150933b2c728dde4a69b2662eac62ce32a
05 Affected products
06 References
- community.sophos.comhttps://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/b/xg-blog/posts/sfos-17-0-3-mr3-released
- seclists.org20180109 SSD Advisory - Sophos XG from Unauthenticated Persistent XSS to Unauthorized Root Accesshttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/24
- community.sophos.comhttps://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/128024
- blogs.securiteam.comhttps://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3612