Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-4523

Title: Symantec Malware Analyzer G2 RCE

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2015-4523

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Sep 11, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 9.3 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.49%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-4523: Blue Coat Malware Analysis Appliance (MAA) before 4.2.5 and Malware Analyzer G2 allow remote attackers to bypass a virtual machine protection mechanism and consequently write to arbitrary files, cause a denial of service (host reboot or reset to factory defaults), or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to saving files during analysis.

Impacted Vendors

blue_coat 1

symantec 2

Reference Links

https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa97 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa97

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns