PT-2022-17416 · Symantec · Symantec Management Agent

Marius Gabriel Mihai · Published 2022-03-04 · Updated 2023-08-08 · CVE-2022-25623

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Symantec Management Agent (affected versions not specified)

Description The Symantec Management Agent is susceptible to a privilege escalation issue. A low privilege local account can be elevated to the SYSTEM level through registry manipulations.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-25623

Affected Products

Symantec Management Agent

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-25623 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25623 · Security Note
• https://support.broadcom.com/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/20366 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/27769 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/38440 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/28110 · Telegram Post