https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-are-exploiting-a-sophos-firewall-zero-day/
By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet
April 26, 2020
Cyber-security firm Sophos has published an emergency security update on
Saturday to patch a zero-day vulnerability in its XG enterprise firewall
product that was being abused in the wild by hackers.
Sophos said it first learned of the zero-day on late Wednesday, April 22, after
it received a report from one of its customers. The customer reported seeing "a
suspicious field value visible in the management interface."
After investigating the report, Sophos determined this was an active attack and
not an error in its product.
HACKERS ABUSED AN SQL INJECTION BUG TO STEAL PASSWORDS
"The attack used a previously unknown SQL injection vulnerability to gain
access to exposed XG devices," Sophos said in a security advisory today.
[...]
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