Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-1213

Title: Sophos Scanning Engine Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-1213.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Feb 10, 2014
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.6 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-1213: 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.

Impacted Vendors

S
sophos 2
T
trend_micro 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/102762 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1 http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713 http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx http://osvdb.org/102762 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1 http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713 http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-1213 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.