CVE-2012-6533

medium

Published 2013-02-18 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.4

Description

Buffer overflow in pgpwded.sys in Symantec PGP Desktop 10.x and Encryption Desktop 10.3.0 before MP1 on Windows XP and Server 2003 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38299 local windows verified

Nikita Tarakanov · 2012-02-25

Symantec Encryption Desktop 10 - Local Buffer Overflow / Local Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
windows		not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
symantec	pgp_desktop	`10.0.0`
symantec	pgp_desktop	`10.0.1`
symantec	pgp_desktop	`10.0.2`
symantec	pgp_desktop	`10.0.3`
symantec	pgp_desktop	`10.1.0`
symantec	pgp_desktop	`10.1.1`
symantec	pgp_desktop	`10.1.2`
symantec	pgp_desktop	`10.2.0`
symantec	pgp_desktop	`10.2.1`
symantec	encryption_desktop	`10.3.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.