9.8

CVE-2024-12728: sophos firewall Use of Weak Credentials

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalAnalyzed
Published 19-12-2024Last modified 21-12-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-12728 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Use of Weak Credentials vulnerability in sophos firewall. EPSS estimates a 0.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.94%
0%100%
Low · -0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 19-12-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 21-12-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A weak credentials vulnerability potentially allows privileged system access via SSH to Sophos Firewall older than version 20.0 MR3 (20.0.3).

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.94%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

60%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.01 pp

From 0.95% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.94%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Sophos2 products

1 vendor · 2 products

References

1 links