CVE-2021-25269

MEDIUM

Sophos Intercept X Advanced <2.0.23 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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)

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.6%
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