A vulnerability has been found in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution allows attackers to obtain authentication credentials via unknown vectors, aka "Authentication Credentials Information Leakage in Altiris Deployment Solution." NOTE: this description is based on a vague pre-advisory with no actionable information. However, since it is from a well-known researcher, it is being assigned a CVE identifier for tracking purposes.

The weakness was presented 10/18/2007 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at irmplc.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-5555 since 10/18/2007. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/31/2017). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See 39348, 39347, 39346 and 39345 for similar entries.

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• Symantec

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• Altiris Deployment Solution

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• 6

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