{"id":"CVE-2016-9554","aliases":["EUVD-2016-10360","GHSA-h9p6-824j-f26j"],"status":"published","title":"The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a...","description":"The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a Remote Command Injection vulnerability in its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in MgrDiagnosticTools.php (/controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php), in the component responsible for performing diagnostic tests with the UNIX wget utility. The application doesn't properly escape the information passed in the 'url' variable before calling the executeCommand class function ($this-\u003edtObj-\u003eexecuteCommand). This function calls exec() with unsanitized user input allowing for remote command injection. The page that contains the vulnerabilities, /controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php, is accessed by a built-in command answered by the administrative interface. The command that calls to that vulnerable page (passed in the 'section' parameter) is: 'configuration'. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the 'spiderman' user account.","severity":{"version":"3.0","score":7.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-07","score":0.25063,"percentile":0.97936,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":true,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-77"],"published":"2017-01-28T12:38:00Z","modified":"2026-06-17T00:56:12Z","exploits":[{"source":"exploitdb","id":"EDB-41414","title":"Sophos Web Appliance 4.2.1.3 - DiagnosticTools Remote Command Injection (Metasploit)","type":"webapps","platform":"linux","date":"2016-12-12","verified":true,"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41414"}],"products":[{"vendor":"sophos","product":"web_appliance"}],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95858","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"]},{"url":"http://pastebin.com/UB8Ye6ZU","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Exploit"]},{"url":"https://community.sophos.com/products/web-appliance/b/blog/posts/release-of-swa-version-4-3-1","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Release Notes"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9554"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h9p6-824j-f26j"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2016-9554","description":"The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a Remote Command Injection vulnerability in its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in MgrDiagnosticTools.php (/controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php), in the component responsible for performing diagnostic tests with the UNIX wget utility. The application doesn't properly escape the information passed in the 'url' variable before calling the executeCommand class function ($this-\u003edtObj-\u003eexecuteCommand). This function calls exec() with unsanitized user input allowing for remote command injection. The page that contains the vulnerabilities, /controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php, is accessed by a built-in command answered by the administrative interface. The command that calls to that vulnerable page (passed in the 'section' parameter) is: 'configuration'. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the 'spiderman' user account.","status":"published","published":"2017-01-28T12:38:00Z","modified":"2024-08-06T02:50:38.595Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:33:31.764001Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2016-10360","description":"The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a Remote Command Injection vulnerability in its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in MgrDiagnosticTools.php (/controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php), in the component responsible for performing diagnostic tests with the UNIX wget utility. The application doesn't properly escape the information passed in the 'url' variable before calling the executeCommand class function ($this-\u003edtObj-\u003eexecuteCommand). This function calls exec() with unsanitized user input allowing for remote command injection. The page that contains the vulnerabilities, /controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php, is accessed by a built-in command answered by the administrative interface. The command that calls to that vulnerable page (passed in the 'section' parameter) is: 'configuration'. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the 'spiderman' user account.","status":"published","published":"2017-01-28T12:38:00Z","modified":"2024-08-06T02:50:38Z","updated_at":"2026-11-03T02:22:26.803486Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-h9p6-824j-f26j","title":"The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a...","description":"The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a Remote Command Injection vulnerability in its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in MgrDiagnosticTools.php (/controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php), in the component responsible for performing diagnostic tests with the UNIX wget utility. The application doesn't properly escape the information passed in the 'url' variable before calling the executeCommand class function ($this-\u003edtObj-\u003eexecuteCommand). This function calls exec() with unsanitized user input allowing for remote command injection. The page that contains the vulnerabilities, /controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php, is accessed by a built-in command answered by the administrative interface. The command that calls to that vulnerable page (passed in the 'section' parameter) is: 'configuration'. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the 'spiderman' user account.","status":"published","published":"2022-05-17T02:55:58Z","modified":"2023-01-27T05:05:49Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":7.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-77"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:42:46.624086Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2016-9554","description":"The Sophos Web Appliance Remote / Secure Web Gateway server (version 4.2.1.3) is vulnerable to a Remote Command Injection vulnerability in its web administrative interface. These vulnerabilities occur in MgrDiagnosticTools.php (/controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php), in the component responsible for performing diagnostic tests with the UNIX wget utility. The application doesn't properly escape the information passed in the 'url' variable before calling the executeCommand class function ($this-\u003edtObj-\u003eexecuteCommand). This function calls exec() with unsanitized user input allowing for remote command injection. The page that contains the vulnerabilities, /controllers/MgrDiagnosticTools.php, is accessed by a built-in command answered by the administrative interface. The command that calls to that vulnerable page (passed in the 'section' parameter) is: 'configuration'. Exploitation of this vulnerability yields shell access to the remote machine under the 'spiderman' user account.","status":"published","published":"2017-01-28T12:59:00.18Z","modified":"2026-06-17T00:56:12.56Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":7.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary"},{"version":"2.0","score":9,"vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-77"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:03:35.029632Z"}]}}