CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15527
6.8 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.2 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs.
Affected configurations
• symantec management console (< 8.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00 Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00 Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory