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CVE-2016-5311

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton In…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
SymantecEndpoint Protection
before 22.8.0.50
SymantecEndpoint Protection Cloud
before 22.8.0.50
SymantecNorton 360
before 22.7
SymantecNorton Antivirus
before 22.7
SymantecNorton Antivirus With Backup
before 22.7
SymantecNorton Family
before 22.7
SymantecNorton Internet Security
before 22.7
SymantecNorton Security
before 22.7
SymantecNorton Security With Backup
before 22.7

Weakness classification

CWE-427

References