CVE-2014-1213
Published Feb 10, 2014
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Sophos Anti-Virus engine (SAVi) before 3.50.1, as used in VDL 4.97G 9.7.x before 9.7.9, 10.0.x before 10.0.11, and 10.3.x before 10.3.1 does not set an ACL for certain global and session objects, which allows local users to bypass anti-virus protection, cause a denial of service (resource consumption, CPU consumption, and eventual crash) or spoof "ready for update" messages by performing certain operations on mutexes or events including (1) DataUpdateRequest, (2) MmfMutexSAV-****, (3) MmfMutexSAV-Info, (4) ReadyForUpdateSAV-****, (5) ReadyForUpdateSAV-Info, (6) SAV-****, (7) SAV-Info, (8) StateChange, (9) SuspendedSAV-****, (10) SuspendedSAV-Info, (11) UpdateComplete, (12) UpdateMutex, (13) UpdateRequest, or (14) SophosALMonSessionInstance, as demonstrated by triggering a ReadyForUpdateSAV event and modifying the UpdateComplete, UpdateMutex, and UpdateRequest objects.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.6
- Impact score
- 7.8
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-264
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:sophos:scanning_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "9DA592E6-2BA6-4A69-9D6A-523921D6E45D",
"versionEndIncluding": "3.48"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:sophos:sophos_anti-virus:10.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "1A5C5A60-26CE-4334-A911-382A452459AD"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]