Overview
- Description
- Symantec Endpoint Protection, prior to 14.2 RU2, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.
- Source
- secure@symantec.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.2
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "8E01DC1B-3D3D-4791-9668-29142FF2181B",
"versionEndIncluding": "14.2"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_protection:14.2:ru1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "C1DD3F0E-48D3-46E8-9A01-6EC4D7B3A4E2"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]