CVE-2014-1213 Missing authorization in n/a
Local attackers can bypass anti-virus protection or cause denial of service by manipulating unprotected global and session objects in the Sophos Anti-Virus engine.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2014-1213?
CVE-2014-1213 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 Feb 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1213?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sophos Scanning Engine, Sophos Sophos Anti-Virus.
How do I fix CVE-2014-1213?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-1213 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2014-1213 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1213 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r9jr-628j-pc37.