What is CVE-2025-0617?

CVE-2025-0617 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Trellix Hx Console, classified under Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion). CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2025-01-29.

How severe is CVE-2025-0617?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

XXE in Trellix Hx Console

CVE-2025-0617

An attacker with access to an HX 10.0.0 and previous versions, may send specially-crafted data to the HX console. The malicious detection would then trigger file parsing containing exponential entity expansions in the consumer process th…

EPSS: 0.007 (72.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Trellix Hx Console — versions 5.1.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-776 — Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion)

References

thrive.trellix.com/s/article/000014214

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-0617?: CVE-2025-0617 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Trellix Hx Console, classified under Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion). CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2025-01-29.
How severe is CVE-2025-0617?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.