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CVE-2018-5240

The Inventory Plugin for Symantec Management Agent prior to 7.6 POST HF7, 8.0 POST HF6, or 8.1 RU7 may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue that allows a user to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected at lower access levels.

Published

2018-07-25T16:29:00.240

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:08:24.393

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 8.0 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

5.1

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	symantec	inventory	≤ 7.6	Yes
Application	symantec	inventory	8.0	Yes
Application	symantec	inventory	8.1	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104753 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041654 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1456.html Mitigation, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104753 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041654 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1456.html Mitigation, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)