CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-5821
7.8 HIGH
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- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427
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 DLL injection vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an individual attempts to execute their own code in place of legitimate code as a means to perform an exploit.
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
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- https://support.symantec.com/us/en/article.SYMSA1505.html Vendor Advisory
- https://support.symantec.com/us/en/article.SYMSA1505.html Vendor Advisory