CVE-2025-14963

HIGH

Trellix HX Agent - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability identified in the HX Agent driver file fekern.sys allowed a threat actor with local user access the ability to gain elevated system privileges. Utilization of a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) was leveraged to gain access to the critical Windows process memory lsass.exe (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service). The fekern.sys is a driver file associated with the HX Agent (used in all existing HX Agent versions). The vulnerable driver installed in a product or a system running a fully functional HX Agent is, itself, not exploitable as the product’s tamper protection restricts the ability to communicate with the driver to only the Agent’s processes.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 1.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (3)
trellix/endpoint_security 35.31.0-37
trellix/endpoint_security 36.30.0-17
trellix/endpoint_security 30.0.0 - 34.0.0
Published Feb 24, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 25, 2026