CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-5240

8.0 HIGH Published 2018-07-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/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

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• symantec inventory (<= 7.6) • symantec inventory 8.0 • symantec inventory 8.1

References