CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-2005

Improper Authentication

Published: Jun 25, 2014 | Modified: Sep 27, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.8
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Sophos Disk Encryption (SDE) 5.x in Sophos Enterprise Console (SEC) 5.x before 5.2.2 does not enforce intended authentication requirements for a resume action from sleep mode, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain desktop access by leveraging the absence of a login screen.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_console Sophos * 5.2.1 (including)
Enterprise_console Sophos 5.1 (including) 5.1 (including)
Enterprise_console Sophos 5.2 (including) 5.2 (including)
Enterprise_console Sophos 5.2.1 (including) 5.2.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References