CVE-2018-5240

Severity

52%

Complexity

51%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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 3.0 Base Score 8. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.2. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Symantec Inventory

First reported 6 years ago

2018-07-25 16:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Symantec Inventory 8.0 HF6 for Management Agent

8.0
management_agent

Symantec Inventory 8.1 RU7 for Management Agent

8.1
management_agent

References

104753

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

1041654

Third Party Advisory

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1456.html

Mitigation, Vendor Advisory

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