{"id":"CVE-2021-25271","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-25271","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:20:40.160Z","title":"A local attacker could read or write arbitrary files with administrator privileges in HitmanPro before version Build 318.","description":"A local attacker could read or write arbitrary files with administrator privileges in HitmanPro before version Build 318.","published":"2021-10-08T00:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:41:45.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security-alert@sophos.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["sophos/hitmanpro"],"epss":{"score":0.00229,"percentile":0.13635,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20211007-hmp-lpe","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-alert@sophos.com"},{"url":"https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20211007-hmp-lpe","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25271","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}