5.6
MEDIUM
CVE-2014-1213
Sophos Anti-Virus Elevation of Privilege and Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 10, 2014, 11:55 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 2:03 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

7.8

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2014-1213 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Sophos sophos_anti-virus
2 Sophos scanning_engine

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2014-1213 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2014-1213 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/102762
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html
    Added Reference http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1
    Added Reference http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286
    Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713
    Added Reference http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 03, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 11, 2014

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2014-1213 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2014-1213 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.06 }} 0.00%

score

0.26320

percentile

CVSS2 - Vulnerability Scoring System
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability