01 Record
CVE-2021-25269
A local administrator could prevent the HMPA service from starting despite tamper protection using an unquoted service path vulnerability in the HMPA component of Sophos Intercept X Advanced and
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: Sophos
CNA base score4.4 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
02 Description
A local administrator could prevent the HMPA service from starting despite tamper protection using an unquoted service path vulnerability in the HMPA component of Sophos Intercept X Advanced and
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.25% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 16.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 4.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-11-26 14:12Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 19:56Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-01-15
- Assigning CNA
- Sophos
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 4.4)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-428Unquoted Search Path or ElementBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e183babe11087f44edec72ddf993c3b682ab5be7ad8c755a15a56be6d69eb943
05 Affected products
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