Vulnerability CVE-2018-5240

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2018-5240 (CCN-147558)

Assigned:

2018-07-16

Published:

2018-07-16

Updated:

2019-10-03

Summary:

The Inventory Plugin for Symantec Management Agent prior to 7.6 POST HF7, 8.0 POST HF6, or 8.1 RU7 may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue that allows a user to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected at lower access levels.

CVSS v3 Severity:

8.0 High (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
7.0 High (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): Low User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): High Integrity (I): High Availibility (A): High

6.4 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
5.6 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent Attack Complexity (AC): High Privileges Required (PR): High User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): High Integrity (I): High Availibility (A): High

CVSS v2 Severity:

5.2 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Adjacent_Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Authentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): Partial

6.5 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Adjacent_Network Access Complexity (AC): High Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Complete Integrity (I): Complete Availibility (A): Complete

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-noinfo

Vulnerability Consequences:

Gain Privileges

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2018-5240

Source: BID
Type: Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
104753

Source: CCN
Type: BID-104753
Symantec Management Agent (Altiris) CVE-2018-5240 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Source: SECTRACK
Type: Third Party Advisory
1041654

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
symantec-mgmt-cve20185240-priv-esc(147558)

Source: CCN
Type: Symantec Security Advisory ID: SA1456
Inventory Plugin for Symantec Management Agent Privilege Escalation

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1456.html

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:symantec:inventory:*:*:*:*:*:management_agent:*:* (Version <= 7.6)

OR cpe:/a:symantec:inventory:8.0:hf6:*:*:*:management_agent:*:*

OR cpe:/a:symantec:inventory:8.1:ru7:*:*:*:management_agent:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

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