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CVE-2017-15527

N/A
Published: November 20, 2017 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:07 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorManagement Console

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

Description

Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Management Console· Symantec
95%
v < 8.1Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4ru4
Affected range stops below 8.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingMitigationVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00

CVSS

5.2MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22

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