Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs.
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-6979 Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: symantec

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:29:03.354Z

Reserved: 2017-10-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15527

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-11-20T19:29:00.297

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-15527

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