Code injection in Trellix FireEye EDR HX
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-94.
Summary
A malicious third party could invoke a persistent denial of service vulnerability in FireEye EDR agent by sending a specially-crafted tamper protection event to the HX service to trigger an exception. This exception will prevent any further tamper protection events from being processed, even after a reboot of HX.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-0618
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8w8c-p944-gqjj
References
More Trellix vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-10633 OS command injection in Trellix Enterprise Security Manager CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-05266 Deserialization of untrusted data in Trellix Intrusion Prevention System Manager CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-10632 Path traversal in Trellix Enterprise Security Manager CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
- TI-2023-05589 Command injection in Trellix ESM CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
- TI-2023-03101 OS command injection in Trellix Enterprise Security Manager CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-05161 Path traversal in Trellix Application and Change Control CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
Sources
- CVE-2025-0618 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-0618 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-8w8c-p944-gqjj · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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