CVE-2025-0617 Denial of service in Trellix HX Console
An attacker can cause a Denial of Service in Trellix HX Console by sending specially crafted data that triggers exponential entity expansions during file parsing.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-0617?
CVE-2025-0617 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Trellix HX Console, published on 29 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An attacker with access to an HX 10.0.0 and previous versions, may send specially-crafted data to the HX console. The malicious detection would then trigger file parsing containing exponential entity expansions in the consumer process thus causing a Denial of Service.
Weakness: CWE-776
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0617?
How do I fix CVE-2025-0617?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0617 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-0617 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0617 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cf2r-vpqc-55g6.