CVE-2018-5235

Norton Utilities (prior to 16.0.3.44) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secure@symantec.com

Published

2018-08-22

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-427

Affected products

• Norton Utilities (Symantec)
• Norton Utilities (Symantec Corporation)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105099
• https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1459.html