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FKIE_CVE-2018-5238

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-08-22 17:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:59

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Norton Power Eraser (prior to 5.3.0.24) and SymDiag (prior to 2.1.242) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application.

References

URL	Tags
secure@symantec.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105100	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secure@symantec.com	https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1459.html	Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105100	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1459.html	Mitigation, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	symantec	norton_power_eraser	*
	symantec	symdiag	*

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CVE-2018-5238 (GCVE-0-2018-5238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-22 17:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:21

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

DLL Preloading

Assigner

symantec CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard – unranked: 6 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105100	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Symantec Corporation	Norton Power Eraser	Affected: Prior to 5.3.0.24
Symantec Corporation	SymDiag	Affected: Prior to 2.1.242

Date Public

2018-08-15 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

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