Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-7382 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Sophos Firewall Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059); ranked in the top 11% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-7382 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) in the WebAdmin component of Sophos Firewall versions older than 21.0 MR2 (v21.0.2). Published on 2025-07-21, it affects High Availability (HA) auxiliary devices when OTP authentication is enabled for the admin user. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to its potential for significant impact.
Adjacent attackers on the same network segment can exploit the vulnerability with low complexity and no prior privileges or user interaction required. Successful exploitation enables pre-authentication code execution on HA auxiliary devices, granting attackers high-level confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromises.
The Sophos security advisory (https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20250721-sfos-rce) addresses mitigation by recommending an upgrade to Sophos Firewall v21.0 MR2 (v21.0.2) or later, where the vulnerability has been remediated.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-22084
Vulnerability Data
A command injection vulnerability in WebAdmin of Sophos Firewall versions older than 21.0 MR2 (21.0.2) can lead to adjacent attackers achieving pre-auth code execution on High Availability (HA) auxiliary devices, if OTP authentication for the admin user is enabled.
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing or incorrect command sanitization during development.
Input validation directly neutralizes or rejects special characters that would otherwise alter OS command structure.
Least privilege reduces the permissions available to any process that could be subverted by injected commands.
Least functionality restricts available OS commands and interpreters, limiting the blast radius of injection.
Secure engineering principles require proper neutralization of untrusted input before command construction.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
PR.PS-06's SDLC practices directly require secure coding and input handling that blocks command-injection defects, yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors and verification gaps unaddressed.
Routine patching/maintenance can remediate known command-injection CVEs in dependencies (partial forward) but does nothing to stop developers from introducing improper neutralization in custom code (none reverse).
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Security testing and code review target insecure use of operating-system command interfaces, catching command-injection flaws introduced during development.