A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Sophos Intercept X for Windows with Central Device Encryption 2024.2.0 and older allows writi…

published 2024-10-02 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-49456

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits: 0; none known

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Sophos Intercept X for Windows with Central Device Encryption 2024.2.0 and older allows writing of arbitrary files.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

Sophos Sophos Intercept X 2024.2.0
sophos intercept_x 2024.2.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-10-02)

Exploit prediction

0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Sophos Sophos Intercept X
sophos intercept_x

Classification

Weakness

CWE-1104 Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components
CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

sophos.com /en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20241002-cde-lpe

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-8885
NVD CVE-2024-8885

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Summary