CVE-2018-4863 describes a tamper protection bypass vulnerability in Sophos Endpoint Protection 10.7, allowing local users to disable the security mechanism by deleting a specific registry key. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) has a low attack complexity and requires local access, with the primary impact being a high integrity loss (I:H) as the tamper protection can be circumvented. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists (EDB-44410), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sophos:endpoint_protection:10.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.