CVE-2014-2005

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Published 2014-06-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
67%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: vultures@jpcert.or.jp — http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/121066.aspx

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sophosenterprise_console{"endIncluding":"5.2.1"}
sophosenterprise_console5.1
sophosenterprise_console5.2
sophosenterprise_console5.2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.