CVE-2010-5177: Sophos Endpoint Security And Control

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in Sophos Endpoint Security and Control 9.0.5 on Windows XP allows local users to bypass kernel-mode hook handlers, and execute dangerous code that would otherwise be blocked by a handler but not blocked by signature-based malware detection, via certain user-space memory changes during hook-handler execution, aka an argument-switch attack or a KHOBE attack. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue because it is a flaw in a protection mechanism for situations where a crafted program has already begun to execute

Affected products

• Sophos Sophos Endpoint Security And Control: version 9.0.5 only

Published 2012-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.