The Inventory Plugin for Symantec Management Agent prior to 7.6 POST HF7, 8.0 POST HF6, or 8.1 RU7 may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue that allows a user to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected at lower access levels.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104753 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041654 Third Party Advisory
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1456.html Mitigation Vendor Advisory
History

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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: symantec

Published: 2018-07-25T00:00:00

Updated: 2018-09-29T09:57:01

Reserved: 2018-01-05T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-5240

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-07-25T16:29:00.240

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223


Link: CVE-2018-5240

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