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01 Record

CVE-2021-25268

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities in Webadmin allow for privilege escalation from MySophos admin to SFOS admin in Sophos Firewall older than version 19.0 GA.

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: Sophos
CNA base score8.4 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

02 Description

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities in Webadmin allow for privilege escalation from MySophos admin to SFOS admin in Sophos Firewall older than version 19.0 GA.

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
0.91% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 59.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
8.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
2022-05-05 18:05Z4 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-03 19:56Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2021-01-15
Assigning CNA
Sophos
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 8.4)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
Data version
5.1
Document digest
63bc18722ace8ae3f5941a35142d7ee9acb1e2daab8b129400616c8c6c48d41f

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
SophosSophos Firewall< 19.0 GA—

06 References