CVE-2014-2849
The Change Password dialog box (change_password) in Sophos Web Appliance before 3.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to change the…
- 8.5HighCVSS base score
- 60.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Change Password dialog box (change_password) in Sophos Web Appliance before 3.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to change the admin user password via a crafted request.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Sophos Web Protection Appliance Interface Authenticated Arbitrary Command Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/sophos_wpa_iface_execRank excellentdisclosed 8 Apr 2014
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Sophos Web Protection Appliance Interface - (Authenticated) Arbitrary Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32789remote, unixpublished 10 Apr 2014Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 32789 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High8.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 60.9% · top 0.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 66734 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/120230.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-14-069/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 32789 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 57706 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-2874 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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