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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2021-25269 – Sophos Intercept X Advanced and Exploit Prevention

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

CVE-2021-25269 

Sophos Intercept X Advanced and Exploit Prevention are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unquoted service path flaw in the HMPA component. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to prevent the HMPA service from starting, and results in a denial of service condition.

Impact

  • Denial of Service

Affected Vendors

  • Sophos

Affected Products

  • Sophos Intercept X Advanced 2.0
  • Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server 2.0
  • Sophos Exploit Prevention 3.8

Remediation

Refer to Sophos Web site for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information.

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20211126-ixa-hmpa-local-dos

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