CVE-2013-4984: Sophos Web Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The close_connections function in /opt/cma/bin/clear_keys.pl in Sophos Web Appliance before 3.7.9.1 and 3.8 before 3.8.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the second argument.

Affected products

• Sophos Web Appliance: up to and including 3.7.9; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.1.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; …

Published 2013-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.