CVE-2017-15527

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.8
Exploit probability—
ProductSymantec Management Console
PublishedNov 20, 2017
First seenNov 20, 2017

How to fix

Update
  • symantec management_console8.1 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
symantec management_consolev < 8.18.1

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