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    CVE-2016-5311

    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.

    Published:Jan 9, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Jan 9, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00289
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Endpoint Protection
    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Endpoint Protection Cloud
    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Norton 360
    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Norton Antivirus
    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Norton Antivirus With Backup
    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Norton Family
    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Norton Internet Security
    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Norton Security
    Vendor
    Symantec
    Product
    Norton Security With Backup

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High