Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and Mail Security for MS Exchange. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-12759. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and Mail Security for MS Exchange (Anti-Malware Software) (affected version unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) and Symantec Mail Security for MS Exchange (SMSMSE), prior to versions 14.2 RU2 and 7.5.x respectively, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.

The weakness was disclosed 11/15/2019 as SYMSA1488 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.symantec.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-12759 since 06/06/2019. The attack needs to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Timelineinfo

06/06/2019 🔍
11/15/2019 +162 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: SYMSA1488
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-12759 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-12759
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-145832
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Entryinfo

Created: 11/16/2019 12:12
Updated: 11/16/2019 12:17
Changes: 11/16/2019 12:12 (49), 11/16/2019 12:17 (18)
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