CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.1. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated.
CVE
CVE-2017-18014
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.1
EPSS
2.31%
Original NVD 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 page (Control Center -> Log Viewer -> in the filter option "Web Server Protection") in the webadmin interface, and execute any action available to the webadmin of the firewall (e.g., creating a new user, enabling SSH, or adding an SSH authorized key). The WAF log page will execute the "User-Agent" parameter in the HTTP POST request.
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