# CVE-2022-3696: Code injection in Sophos Firewall

> Administrators can execute arbitrary code in the Sophos Firewall web admin interface, requiring an upgrade to mitigate.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Dec 2022
- **Updated:** 24 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x8cr-3jh5-wvwp

## What is CVE-2022-3696?

CVE-2022-3696 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Sophos Firewall, published on 1 Dec 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A post-auth code injection vulnerability allows admins to execute code in Webadmin of Sophos Firewall releases older than version 19.5 GA.

Weakness: CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3696?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Sophos Xg Firewall Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-3696?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-3696 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-3696 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-3696 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Sophos Firewall

- [CVE-2020-15069](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15069/): Sophos XG Firewall Buffer Overflow (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2020-15504](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-15504/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-3713](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3713/): Code injection in Sophos Firewall (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2020-17352](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-17352/): Command injection in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-3226](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3226/): Command injection in Sophos Firewall (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-3696 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-3696 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Sophos Firewall, published on 1 Dec 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-3696 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Sophos Firewall. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3696/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3696/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3696
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3696
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-3696

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3696/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.