PT-2015-4166 · Symantec · Symantec Endpoint Protection+1

Published 2015-09-20 · Updated 2017-09-23 · CVE-2014-9227

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Symantec Endpoint Protection versions prior to 12.1.6

Description The issue concerns untrusted search path vulnerabilities in the Manager component, allowing local users to gain privileges. This can be achieved by using a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Recommendations For versions prior to 12.1.6, update to version 12.1.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9227

Affected Products

Symantec Endpoint Protection

Symantec Endpoint Protection Client

References · 5

• http://symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20150617_00 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9227 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9227 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/75203 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1032616 · Note