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CVE-2016-5311

HIGH
7.8CVSS
Published: 2020-01-09
Updated: 2024-11-21
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Description

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client due to a DLL-preloading without path restrictions, which could let a local malicious user obtain system privileges.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
local
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
required
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
high
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Metadata

Primary Vendor
SYMANTEC
Published
1/9/2020
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

symantec : endpoint_protectionsymantec : endpoint_protection_cloudsymantec : norton_360symantec : norton_antivirussymantec : norton_antivirus_with_backupsymantec : norton_familysymantec : norton_internet_securitysymantec : norton_securitysymantec : norton_security_with_backup

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