CVE-2024-8885

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Dat

Publication date:

02/10/2024

Last modified:

15/04/2026

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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