Security News > 2023 > December > Sophos backports RCE fix after attacks on unsupported firewalls
Sophos was forced to backport a security update for CVE-2022-3236 for end-of-life firewall firmware versions after discovering hackers actively exploiting the flaw in attacks.
Although the hotfix was automatically rolled out to appliances set to auto-accept security updates by the vendor, by January 2023, over 4,000 internet-exposed appliances remained vulnerable to attacks.
"In December 2023, we delivered an updated fix after identifying new exploit attempts against this same vulnerability in older, unsupported versions of the Sophos Firewall," reads the updated security bulletin.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-23 | CVE-2022-3236 | Code Injection vulnerability in Sophos Firewall 19.0.1 A code injection vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin allows a remote attacker to execute code in Sophos Firewall version v19.0 MR1 and older. | 9.8 |