CVE-2014-1213

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-1213
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-02-10 23:55:05 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionSophos 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

EPSS: 0.000820000 probability, percentile 0.237620000 (date 2026-05-04)

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sophos Scanning Engine All All All All
Application Sophos Sophos Anti-virus 10.0.11 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2014-1213 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.portcullis-security.com
Sophos Anti-Virus ACL Error Lets Local Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Sophos Anti-Virus CVE-2014-1213 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
osvdb.org/102762 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Full Disclosure: CVE-2014-1213 - Denial of Service in Sophos Anti Virus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
Sophos Anti-Virus Denial Of Service ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com
Windows based Sophos Anti-Virus engine (SAVi) vulnerability fixed in the January update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.sophos.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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