Trellix FireEye EDR HX HX 10.0.0 HX Service code injection

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Trellix FireEye EDR HX HX 10.0.0. This impacts an unknown function of the component HX Service. Performing a manipulation results in code injection. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-0618. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Trellix FireEye EDR HX HX 10.0.0. This affects an unknown functionality of the component HX Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

A malicious third party could invoke a persistent denial of service vulnerability in FireEye EDR agent by sending a specially-crafted tamper protection event to the HX service to trigger an exception. This exception will prevent any further tamper protection events from being processed, even after a reboot of HX.

The advisory is shared at thrive.trellix.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-0618 since 01/21/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/23/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Trellix

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• FireEye EDR HX

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• HX 10.0.0

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• commercial

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