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CVE-2016-9553 Detail

Description

The Sophos Web Appliance (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to two Remote Command Injection vulnerabilities affecting its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in the MgrReport.php (/controllers/MgrReport.php) component responsible for blocking and unblocking IP addresses from accessing the device. The device doesn't properly escape the information passed in the variables 'unblockip' and 'blockip' before calling the shell_exec() function which allows for system commands to be injected into the device. The code erroneously suggests that the information handled is protected by utilizing the variable name 'escapedips' - however this was not the case. The Sophos ID is NSWA-1258.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://pastebin.com/DUYuN0U5 Exploit 
http://pastebin.com/DUYuN0U5 Exploit 
http://swa.sophos.com/rn/swa/concepts/ReleaseNotes_4.3.1.html Release Notes 
http://swa.sophos.com/rn/swa/concepts/ReleaseNotes_4.3.1.html Release Notes 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95853 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95853 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://community.sophos.com/products/web-appliance/b/blog/posts/release-of-swa-version-4-3-1 Release Notes 
https://community.sophos.com/products/web-appliance/b/blog/posts/release-of-swa-version-4-3-1 Release Notes 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-9553
NVD Published Date:
01/28/2017
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
MITRE