CVE-2020-29574 — Cyberoamos
CRITICALCVE-2020-29574 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in sophos cyberoamos. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-02-06) and has been used in ransomware campaigns — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
An SQL injection vulnerability in the WebAdmin of Cyberoam OS through 2020-12-04 allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL statements remotely.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-02-06 — including use in ransomware campaigns. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-02-27.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2020-29574.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2020-29574 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
An SQL injection vulnerability in the WebAdmin of Cyberoam OS through 2020-12-04 allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL statements remotely.
Affected Products
cyberoamossophosDetection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every sophos cyberoamos deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2020-29574 yet — track the sophos cyberoamos advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Until you can upgrade, make sure every query built from user input uses parameterised statements or a prepared-statement API rather than string concatenation, and reduce the database account's privileges so an injected query cannot read or alter data beyond what the feature needs. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2020-29574 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.