CVE-2021-25269

lowpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.003 · 17 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.25% (17th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

A local administrator could prevent the HMPA service from starting despite tamper protection using an unquoted service path vulnerability in the HMPA component of Sophos Intercept X Advanced and Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server before version 2.0.23, as well as Sophos Exploit Prevention before version 3.8.3.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.1–4.4

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.14.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.8 · impact 3.6

v3.14.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.14.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security-alert@sophos.comexploitability 0.8 · impact 3.6

v3.14.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-428USprimary

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Sophos Intercept X Advancedunspecified → 2.0.23enisa_euvdEU
Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Serverunspecified → 2.0.23enisa_euvdEU
Sophos Sophos Exploit Preventionunspecified → 3.8.3enisa_euvdEU
sophos exploit prevention< 3.8.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sophos:exploit_prevention:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sophos intercept x endpoint< 2.0.23nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sophos:intercept_x_endpoint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sophos intercept x for server< 2.0.23nvdUScpe:2.3:a:sophos:intercept_x_for_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-11-26modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

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