Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager up to 14.2 out-of-bounds

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager up to 14.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-5833. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager up to 14.2 (Anti-Malware Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, prior to 14.3, may be susceptible to an out of bounds vulnerability, which is a type of issue that results in an existing application reading memory outside of the bounds of the memory that had been allocated to the program.

The weakness was disclosed 05/11/2020 as SYMSA1762 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.broadcom.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-5833 since 01/06/2020. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 14.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-155013, VDB-155014, VDB-155015 and VDB-155016 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.9

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Vendor Base Score (Symantec): 3.3
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NVD Base Score: 3.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Out-of-bounds
CWE: CWE-125 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Endpoint Protection Manager 14.3

Timelineinfo

01/06/2020 🔍
05/11/2020 +126 days 🔍
05/12/2020 +1 days 🔍
05/12/2020 +0 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: SYMSA1762
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2020-5833 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-5833
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-155012
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/12/2020 08:04
Updated: 05/12/2020 08:09
Changes: 05/12/2020 08:04 (50), 05/12/2020 08:09 (18)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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