CVE-2016-5311

CWE-4273 documents3 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.3%
top 49.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJan 9
Latest updateMay 24

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages9 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-g7qp-85xf-w4q4: A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup,2022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2016-5311: A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup,2020-01-09