CVE-2010-5249: Sophos Free Encryption
Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Sophos Free Encryption 2.40.1.1 and Sophos SafeGuard PrivateCrypto 2.40.1.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse pcrypt0406.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .uti file. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
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Published 2012-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.