CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-5235

6.0 MEDIUM Published 2018-08-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

Norton Utilities (prior to 16.0.3.44) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application.

Affected configurations

• symantec norton utilities (< 16.0.3.44)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References