Medium6.1Sophos

local attacker can overwrite arbitrary files on the system with VPN client logs using administrator privileges, pot…

CVE-2021-36809 Published Mar 8, 2022Updated by vendor Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-36809

Affected products & platforms

SophosUnclassified

Summary

A local attacker can overwrite arbitrary files on the system with VPN client logs using administrator privileges, potentially resulting in a denial of service and data loss, in all versions of Sophos SSL VPN client.

Affected versions

all versions

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Mitigation

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Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source

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