RCE in Trellix Endpoint Security (Hx) Agent

CVE-2025-0664

A locally authenticated, privileged user can craft a malicious OpenSSL configuration file, potentially leading the agent to load an arbitrary local library. This may impair endpoint defenses and allow the attacker to achieve code execution with SYSTEM-level privileges.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Published · last modified .

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (5.5th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 5th percentile — 5.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-0664: held from 0.002 to 0.002.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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