CVE-2011-5117

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise Device Encryption 5.x through 5.50.8.13, Sophos SafeGuard Easy Device Encryption Client 5.50.x, and Sophos Disk Encryption 5.50.x have a delay before removal of (1) out-of-date credentials and (2) invalid credentials, which allows physically proximate attackers to defeat the full-disk encryption feature by leveraging knowledge of these credentials.

Affected products

Sophos Disk Encryption: 5.50.0, 5.50.1, 5.50.8
Sophos Safeguard Easy Device Encryption Client: 5.50.0, 5.50.1, 5.50.8
Sophos Safeguard Enterprise Device Encryption: 5.6, 5.35.0, 5.35.1, 5.35.2, 5.35.3, 5.40.0 (+3)

References

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/112655.aspx
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/112655.aspx

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