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

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MEDIUM

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

Published Feb 10, 2014

5.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.97%

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.97% 0.00973

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00973

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.97% (0.00973)	60.66th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.97% (0.00973)	57.29th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00049)	12.42th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.06% (0.00060)	27.52th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 13, 2024	0.06% (0.00057)	23.62th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 5, 2024	0.06% (0.00057)	21.58th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 24, 2023	0.06% (0.00060)	23.71th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.10% (0.01104)	54.09th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.10% (0.01104)	52.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.10% (0.01104)	50.41th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.10% (0.01104)	28.85th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (8)

http://osvdb.org/102762
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Link	Providers	Tags
http://osvdb.org/102762		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125024/Sophos-Anti-Virus-Denial-Of-Service.html		x_refsource_MISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/1		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1213/		x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/530915/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65286		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029713		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/2300/7200/1031/120401.aspx		x_refsource_CONFIRM

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 10, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jan 7, 2014

Link CVE-2014-1213

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-1213

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-1213