CVE-2016-5311

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Publication date:

09/01/2020

Last modified:

29/01/2020

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_protection::::::::		22.8.0.50 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_protection_cloud::::::::		22.8.0.50 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_360::::::::		22.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_antivirus::::::::		22.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_antivirus_with_backup::::::::		22.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_family::::::::		22.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_internet_security::::::::		22.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_security::::::::		22.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_security_with_backup::::::::		22.7 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2016-5311

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools