CVE-2017-15527

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - secure@symantec.com

Published

2017-11-20

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Management Console (Symantec)
• Symantec Management Console (Symantec Corporation)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743
• https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year…