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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-25271

A local attacker could read or write arbitrary files with administrator privileges in HitmanPro before version Build 318.

MEDIUM 6.0EPSS 0.23%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A local attacker could read or write arbitrary files with administrator privileges in HitmanPro before version Build 318.

CVSS 3.1
6.0 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.23% probability · 14th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
sophos/hitmanpro
Source
security-alert@sophos.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 0.23%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 0.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.