CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-5238

7.8 HIGH 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])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

Norton Power Eraser (prior to 5.3.0.24) and SymDiag (prior to 2.1.242) 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 power eraser (< 5.3.0.24) • symantec symdiag (< 2.1.242)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References