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2 vulnerabilities found for Symantec Web Security Services Agent by Broadcom
CVE-2025-13917 (GCVE-0-2025-13917)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-01-28 16:29 – Updated: 2026-01-28 16:43
VLAI?
Title
Elevation of Privileges in Web Security Services (WSS) Agent
Summary
WSS Agent, prior to 9.8.5, may be susceptible to a Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadcom | Symantec Web Security Services Agent |
Affected:
9.8.4
Unaffected: 9.8.5 |
Credits
dfc3d21780 Cparta Cyber Defense AB
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CVE-2025-13917 (GCVE-0-2025-13917)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-28 16:29 – Updated: 2026-01-28 16:43
VLAI?
Title
Elevation of Privileges in Web Security Services (WSS) Agent
Summary
WSS Agent, prior to 9.8.5, may be susceptible to a Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadcom | Symantec Web Security Services Agent |
Affected:
9.8.4
Unaffected: 9.8.5 |
Credits
dfc3d21780 Cparta Cyber Defense AB
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