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.

CVSS v3 8.0 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 5.2 MEDIUM

8.0^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector : AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 2.1 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

5.2^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

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

Exploitability : 5.1 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104753	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041654	Third Party Advisory
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1456.html	Mitigation Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:symantec:inventory::::::management_agent::*
	cpe:2.3:a:symantec:inventory:8.0:hf6::::management_agent::*
	cpe:2.3:a:symantec:inventory:8.1:ru7::::management_agent::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2018-07-25 16:29

Updated : 2019-10-03 00:03

NVD link : CVE-2018-5240

Mitre link : CVE-2018-5240

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2018-5240

JSON object : View

Products Affected

symantec

inventory

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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