What is CVE-2024-13973?

CVE-2024-13973 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sophos Firewall, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2025-07-21.

How severe is CVE-2024-13973?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Sophos Firewall

CVE-2024-13973

A post-auth SQL injection vulnerability in WebAdmin of Sophos Firewall versions older than 21.0 MR1 (21.0.1) can potentially lead to administrators achieving arbitrary code execution.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2025-07-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.100 (95.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.092 · newest: 0.100 · change: +0.007

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20250721-sfos-rce (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-13973?: CVE-2024-13973 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sophos Firewall, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2025-07-21.
How severe is CVE-2024-13973?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.