CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5820

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-02-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-02-11
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])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE), prior to 14.2 RU2 MP1 and prior to 14.2.5569.2100 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 11.0 • symantec endpoint protection 12.1 • symantec endpoint protection 14.0.0 • symantec endpoint protection 14.0.1 • symantec endpoint protection 14.2 • symantec endpoint protection 12.0

References