CVE-2017-15527

medium

Description

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.

References

https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-20

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium