CVE-2025-7472

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jul 17, 2025
Updated: Jul 17, 2025
Reserved: Jul 11, 2025

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Intercept X for Windows installer prior version 1.22 can lead to a local user gaining system level privileges, if the installer is run as SYSTEM.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	Sophos

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Sophos Intercept X for Windows InstallerSophos	before 1.22Affected

References

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20250717-cix-lpe

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