CVE-2021-25269
MEDIUMSophos Intercept X Advanced <2.0.23 - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
A local administrator could prevent the HMPA service from starting despite tamper protection using an unquoted service path vulnerability in the HMPA component of Sophos Intercept X Advanced and Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server before version 2.0.23, as well as Sophos Exploit Prevention before version 3.8.3.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20211126-ixa-hmpa-local-dos
Scores
CVSS v3
4.4
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
15.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-428
Status
published
Products (3)
sophos/exploit_prevention
< 3.8.3
sophos/intercept_x_endpoint
< 2.0.23
sophos/intercept_x_for_server
< 2.0.23
Published
Nov 26, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026