Symantec Norton Antivirus up to 2001 Content-Type Header for Multi-Part Request privileges management ⚔ [Disputed]

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Symantec Norton Antivirus up to 2001. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Content-Type Header for Multi-Part Request Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2002-1777. No exploit is available. The existence of this vulnerability is still disputed at present. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Symantec Norton Antivirus up to 2001 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component Content-Type Header for Multi-Part Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

** DISPUTED ** NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the vendor. Symantec Norton AntiVirus (NAV) 2002 allows remote attackers to bypass e-mail scanning via a filename in the Content-Type field with an excluded extension such as .nch or .dbx, but a malicious extension in the Content-Disposition field, which is used by Outlook to obtain the file name. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this issue, acknowledging that the initial scan is bypassed, but Norton AntiVirus or the Office plug-in would detect the virus before it is executed.

The bug was discovered 03/07/2002. The weakness was published 12/31/2002 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at online.securityfocus.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2002-1777 since 06/21/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 299 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 38346 (Symantec Norton AntiVirus Conflicting MIME Header Vulnerability).

Upgrading to version 2002 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (8392), SecurityFocus (BID 4246†), OSVDB (6263†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-10507†). Similar entries are available at VDB-19417, VDB-19418 and VDB-19419. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Norton Antivirus 2002

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03/07/2002 🔍
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12/31/2002 +299 days 🔍
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06/21/2005 +903 days 🔍
02/28/2006 +252 days 🔍
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09/01/2025 +4046 days 🔍

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Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: online.securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2002-1777 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-1777
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-19420
X-Force: 8392 - Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 incoming email scan can be bypassed by changing the file name in the Content-Type header
SecurityFocus: 4246 - Symantec Norton AntiVirus Conflicting MIME Header Vulnerability
OSVDB: 6263 - Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 incoming email scan can be bypassed by changing the file name in the Content-Type header
Vulnerability Center: 10507 - Symantec Norton AntiVirus Bypass Scanning, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/04/2014 16:58
Updated: 09/01/2025 19:42
Changes: 08/04/2014 16:58 (66), 06/14/2019 20:13 (3), 08/08/2024 06:35 (16), 09/01/2025 19:42 (5)
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