A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Symantec Endpoint Protection up to 14.2 RU1 (Anti-Malware Software). This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Password Protection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-863. The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP), prior to 14.2 RU2 may be susceptible to a password protection bypass vulnerability whereby the secondary layer of password protection could by bypassed for individuals with local administrator rights.

The weakness was shared 11/15/2019 as SYMSA1488 (Website). The advisory is shared at support.symantec.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-12756 since 06/06/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Applying the patch 14.2 RU2 is able to eliminate this problem.

The entries 145828, 145831, 145830 and 145832 are related to this item.

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• Symantec

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• Endpoint Protection

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• 14.2 RU1

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