Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-15527

Title: Symantec Management Console Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-15527.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Nov 20, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-15527: 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.

Impacted Vendors

symantec 1

digitalguardian 1

avira 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743 https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743 https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Attack Vector

ADJACENT_NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns