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CVE-2020-12271 Unmapped
Sophos SFOS SQL Injection Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Sophos — SFOS
- Description (CISA)
- Sophos Firewall operating system (SFOS) firmware contains a SQL injection vulnerability when configured with either the administration (HTTPS) service or the User Portal is exposed on the WAN zone. Successful exploitation may cause remote code execution to exfiltrate usernames and hashed passwords for the local device admin(s), portal admins, and user accounts used for remote access (but not external Active Directory or LDAP passwords).
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Due date
- 2022-05-03
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-89
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12271
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2020-12271. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-89) — here is why — and does not guess.
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