CVE-2018-12238

published 2018-11-29

CVE-2018-12238: Norton prior to 22.15; Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) prior to 12.1.7454.7000 & 14.2; Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE) prior…

high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

Norton prior to 22.15; Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) prior to 12.1.7454.7000 & 14.2; Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE) prior to NIS-22.15.1.8 & SEP-12.1.7454.7000; and Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud (SEP Cloud) prior to 22.15.1 may be susceptible to an AV bypass issue, which is a type of exploit that works to circumvent one of the virus detection engines to avoid a specific type of virus protection. One of the antivirus engines depends on a signature pattern from a database to identify malicious files and viruses; the antivirus bypass exploit looks to alter the file being scanned so it is not detected.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
symantec	endpoint_protection	>= 11.0 < 12.1.7454.7000	12.1.7454.7000
symantec	endpoint_protection	14.0 – 14.2	—
symantec	endpoint_protection_cloud	< 22.15.1	22.15.1
symantec	norton_antivirus	< 22.15	22.15