Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-12727

RCE

Title: Sophos Firewall RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-12727.

CWE Category CWE-89

Published Date Dec 19, 2024

Modified Date Nov 12, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.12%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-12727: A pre-auth SQL injection vulnerability in the email protection feature of Sophos Firewall versions older than 21.0 MR1 (21.0.1) allows access to the reporting database and can lead to remote code execution if a specific configuration of Secure PDF eXchange (SPX) is enabled in combination with the firewall running in High Availability (HA) mode.

Impacted Vendors

ingate 1

sophos 1

Reference Links

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20241219-sfos-rce

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-12727 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 19, 2024 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.