It is good that Sophos has released fixes for this RCE vulnerability and we know that making sure Webadmin and the User Portal are not exposed to the Internet at large effectively mitigate the threat, but are there any IOCs that can be hunted for to determine…

Surprised there is no 'banner' announcement of this in the community forum (I learnt about it from a third party security mailing list). I've said it before but I will say it again, I think it is a major failing of Sophos not to have a security alert…

When I'm using the web admin gui, I get logged out periodically, anywhere from an hour or so to several hours, even though I don't have " Logout admin session after" checked. Sometimes it doesn't log out at all, which is what I want. How can I prevent…

Hello Folks, Firstly this is a Sophos XG Home License so as to my understanding no support from Sophos so I need all your help. I have a Lab Setup at my house which connectec to 2 friends Lab's via VPN. This has been online and working for about 2 years…

Good Day We are currently using sophos XG Firewall. We need to whitelist a range of ip addresses in sophos so we can enable mail fetching for our manage engine service desk plus cloud application. After creating a new firewall rule with the selected…

Hi, I've been trying to access XGS-126 from a web browser. I use MacOS within the network managed by the XGS. The procedure is in https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/v17.0.9/PDF/Sophos%20XG%20Firewall%20Web%20Interface%20Reference%20Guide.pdf…

Hi All i want to ask about log Comp = Appliance Access denied on log viewer, we currently having a lot of Appliance Access on log viewer i read some artical it said it just a droped broadcast packet form internal (LAN) and external (WAN) but if it was…

Hi all, we have sophos XGS4300 (SFOS 19.0.0 GA-Build317) and there is some weird condition going on : - Sophos suddenly cant be acces from the local network, we tried plug a laptop directly to the LAN port but nothing work, we can only access it from…

I was working on setting up a port forward, when I lost connection to the Sophos. I rebooted the Sophos and since then I can not access it. I've tried the admin portal and user portal which both fail to load the page. I've also connected my computer to…

Hello Sophos-Team, is there a way to permanently disable the Popup Spam while logging in to Firewalls of the XGS Series? I know it is meant to highlight the features that are new and can help in many ways but after a while it just gets old fast. …

How to Access My XG sophos firewall through WAN by domain / host name instead of wan IP address

Hi all, I noticed that after upgrading to the newest firmware (19.0), I cannot access the device from WAN. Neither the user portal, not the admin portal, even though they are enabled in the administration - device access. Anyone noticed similar problem…

on the XGS2100 there is e new Hardware PortMGMT interface Default setting is enabled IP 10.0.1.1 Network zone: LAN Everyone in LAN can reach this IP? Interface is not used and that is also why Control Center always shows "warning" for your interfaces…

i had sophos xg v 19 iwant to block someusers to acces the portal of the FW :4444 also i want them to access the gateways of aps/routers how can i do that?

Dear all, I have a question, due to any reason I am not anymore able to get access to my xg firewall through LAN-IP I have try to get access through WAN but it's not accessible, is there any way to get access to the Sophos firewall? Regards …

Hi Community, From a vulnerability management scan the result on the XG was port 4444 (web admin interface) was TLS v1.1 enabled. I could not find how to disable this, anyone have an idea? Regards, Peter

Hello everyone, I want no external entities can access the default admin account remotely either via VPN or WAN. Has this been implemented by default or do I have to change the settings ? Thank you in advance.

In addition to our Sophos XG which is the default gateway (.254) we've got a router provided by one of our vendors on the network for their traffic only (.253). We've created a static route to forward all traffic for their sites and applications back…

Hi, I had IPSEC S2S configured wherein SSH to remote site Sophos was working fine? Recently I have configured IPSEC RBVPN and if I try to SSH remote Sophos it does not allow me to access. IPSEC RBVPN working absolutely fine. If I try to access SSH…

I have a Sophos XG-230 Firewall I need to reset to factory and reconfigure. Sophos documentation states the reset button does not actually reset the device to factory, and my testing shows the same. Gaining access to the device by IP is not possible because…

Manage port has failed and i cannot access to remote into XG can someone list the command needed to switch from port 1 to port 3 in at the console thank you

Hi, I wish to reduce the size of the virtual disks, so I am building a new appliance and importing/restoring the config from the existing appliance. I am deploying a new NVA from Sophos's OVF file. Everything goes ok, until I try and log in to the virtual…

Just happened to read something interesting on Reddit about Sophos's effort to differentiate the (free) Home version versus the Business version of Sophos XG starting from v19: Did Sophos discuss or write anything about this in any posts or changelogs…

How do I grant this access to accounts OTHER than the ADMIN local account? Other local administrator accounts have been created (not tied to AD/LDAP) - they have been granted an Administrator profile: However, I cannot find any way to grant the…

Hello, how to give a name (ex: mysophos.fw) to sophos XG firewall and use that name to access firewall from WAN instead of using WAN IP x.x.x.x:4444 ? regards Anand