CVE-2018-5240 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Adjacent Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Adjacent Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00511.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Symantec	Inventory

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:symantec:inventory::::::management_agent::*
	cpe:2.3:a:symantec:inventory:8.0:hf6::::management_agent::*
	cpe:2.3:a:symantec:inventory:8.1:ru7::::management_agent::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-17022	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104753
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041654
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1456.html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: symantec

Published: 2018-07-25T16:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:08:37.116Z

Reserved: 2018-01-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-5240

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-25T16:29:00.240

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:08:24.393

Link: CVE-2018-5240

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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