Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-13974

RCE

Title: Sophos Firewall RCE

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-13974.

CWE Category CWE-807

Published Date Jul 21, 2025

Modified Date Nov 17, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.1 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.28%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-13974: A business logic vulnerability in the Up2Date component of Sophos Firewall older than version 21.0 MR1 (20.0.1) can lead to attackers controlling the firewall’s DNS environment to achieve remote code execution.

Impacted Vendors

ingate 1

sophos 1

Reference Links

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20250721-sfos-rce

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-13974 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 17, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 17, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

July 21, 2025 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity HIGH

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.