CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-12759

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-11-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-11-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) and Symantec Mail Security for MS Exchange (SMSMSE), prior to versions 14.2 RU2 and 7.5.x respectively, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.

Affected configurations

• symantec endpoint protection manager (<= 14.2) • symantec endpoint protection manager 14.2 • symantec mail security (< 7.5)

References