Broadcom Symantec IT Management Suite 8.8/8.8.1 WMI Provider information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Broadcom Symantec IT Management Suite 8.8/8.8.1. It has been rated as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component WMI Provider. This manipulation causes information disclosure. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-15379. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Broadcom Symantec IT Management Suite 8.8/8.8.1. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component WMI Provider. 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Altiris WMI provider exposes a class (AltirisAgent_Stream) that allows any local standard user to read the contents of any file accessible to the SYSTEM account, bypassing filesystem ACLs. No admin privileges required. The provider reverts to the LocalSystem context when servicing WMI queries without re-impersonating the caller. Any local standard user can therefore read SYSTEM-readable files — including configuration files, service logs, and secrets stored with SYSTEM/Administrator-only ACLs — by querying the provider directly.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.broadcom.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-15379 since 07/10/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-45151). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Broadcom

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• Symantec IT Management Suite

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• 8.8
• 8.8.1

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• commercial

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