CVE-2022-25631 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Symantec Endpoint Protection, prior to 14.3 RU6 (14.3.9210.6000), may be susceptible to a Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0005.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Broadcom	Symantec Endpoint Protection

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:symantec_endpoint_protection:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.broadcom.com/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/21165

History

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-269
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: symantec

Published: 2023-01-20T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-03T17:39:40.348Z

Reserved: 2022-02-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-25631

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T04:42:50.319Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-20T17:15:10.517

Modified: 2025-04-03T18:15:41.717

Link: CVE-2022-25631

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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