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.
References
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00 | Issue Tracking Mitigation Vendor Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: symantec
Published: 2017-11-20T00:00:00
Updated: 2017-11-21T10:57:01
Reserved: 2017-10-17T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-15527
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-11-20T19:29:00.297
Modified: 2017-12-12T17:51:18.933
Link: CVE-2017-15527
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE