CVE-2016-5311

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_protection_cloud:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_360:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_antivirus_with_backup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_family:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_internet_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_security_with_backup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2020-01-09 20:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:13


NVD link : CVE-2016-5311

Mitre link : CVE-2016-5311

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-5311


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Products Affected

symantec

  • norton_antivirus_with_backup
  • norton_security_with_backup
  • norton_security
  • norton_family
  • endpoint_protection_cloud
  • norton_internet_security
  • endpoint_protection
  • norton_360
  • norton_antivirus
CWE
CWE-427

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