What is the CVSS score of CVE-2014-1213?

CVE-2014-1213 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 5.6 (Medium). CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.1%.

Scanning Engine CVE-2014-1213

MEDIUM

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CWE-264)

2014-02-10 cve@mitre.org

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Scanning Engine Sophos Anti Virus

5.6

CVSS 2.0 · NVD

Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY

5.6 MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorNVD

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Availability

Lifecycle Timeline

CVE Published

Feb 10, 2014 - 23:55 cve.org

MEDIUM 5.6

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

AnalysisAI

Technical ContextAI

This vulnerability is classified under CWE-264. 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. Affected products include: Sophos Scanning Engine, Sophos Sophos Anti-Virus. Version information: before 3.50.1.

RemediationAI

No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.