{"id":77895,"date":"2026-02-24T21:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-14963-trellix-hx-agent-local-privilege-escalation-lse-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T18:29:32","slug":"cve-2025-14963-trellix-hx-agent-local-privilege-escalation-lse-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-14963-trellix-hx-agent-local-privilege-escalation-lse-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-14963 &#8211; Trellix HX Agent Local Privilege Escalation (LSE) Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-14963<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 24, 2026, 6:29 p.m. | 37\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : A vulnerability identified in the Trellix HX Agent driver file  fekern.sys allowed a threat actor with local user access the ability to gain elevated system privileges.  Utilization of a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) was leveraged to gain access to the critical Windows process memory lsass.exe (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service).  The fekern.sys; a driver file associated with Trellix HX Agent (used in all existing HX Agent versions).  \u00a0 The vulnerable driver installed in a product or a system running fully functional HX Agent is, itself, not exploitable as the product\u2019s tamper protection restricts the ability to communicate with the driver to only the agent\u2019s processes.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 6.2 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-14963 Published : Feb. 24, 2026, 6:29 p.m. | 37\u00a0minutes ago Description : A vulnerability identified in the Trellix HX Agent driver file fekern.sys allowed a threat actor with local user access the ability to gain elevated system privileges. Utilization of a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) was leveraged to gain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}