CVE-2025-0618 Denial of service in FireEye EDR HX
A malicious third party can cause a persistent denial of service in the FireEye EDR agent by triggering an exception that blocks tamper protection events.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-0618?
CVE-2025-0618 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Trellix FireEye EDR HX, published on 23 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A malicious third party could invoke a persistent denial of service vulnerability in FireEye EDR agent by sending a specially-crafted tamper protection event to the HX service to trigger an exception. This exception will prevent any further tamper protection events from being processed, even after a reboot of HX.
Weakness: CWE-94
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0618?
How do I fix CVE-2025-0618?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0618 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-2025-0618 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0618 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8w8c-p944-gqjj.