Administrator file access via undisclosed driver flaw
Published Oct 7, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
Local privilege escalation in Sophos HitmanPro before Build 318 allows local users to read or write arbitrary files as an administrator. The flaw resides in the HitmanPro driver, but Sophos has not published the faulty operation or the input that reaches it. Exploitation requires local access with high privileges; the bounded consequence is file disclosure or modification, with no service interruption reported.
Summary
What happened
Local privilege escalation in Sophos HitmanPro before Build 318 allows local users to read or write arbitrary files as an administrator. The flaw resides in the HitmanPro driver, but Sophos has not published the faulty operation or the input that reaches it. Exploitation requires local access with high privileges; the bounded consequence is file disclosure or modification, with no service interruption reported.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-25271
- Published
- Oct 7, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- Sophos
- Product
- HitmanPro
- Classifications
- T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 7, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <318
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