CVE-2016-5311

2020-01-0919:30:52

symantec

www.cve.org

7.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

55.1%

JSON

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client due to a DLL-preloading without path restrictions, which could let a local malicious user obtain system privileges.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360",
    "vendor": "Symantec",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "before 22.7"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client",
    "vendor": "Symantec",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "before 22.8.0.50"
      }
    ]
  }
]