CVE-2024-13974 (GCVE-0-2024-13974)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-21 13:34
Modified
2025-07-21 15:00
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-807 - Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
Summary
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.
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Sophos Sophos Firewall Version: 0   ≤
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