CVE-2025-7624: sophos firewall SQL Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-7624 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in sophos firewall. EPSS estimates a 8.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 21-07-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 21-07-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An SQL injection vulnerability in the legacy (transparent) SMTP proxy of Sophos Firewall versions older than 21.0 MR2 (21.0.2) can lead to remote code execution, if a quarantining policy is active for Email and SFOS was upgraded from a version older than 21.0 GA.

• CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data.