CVE-2015-4523

critical

Published 2017-09-11 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

9.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

9.0

VIR risk

9.3

Description

Blue Coat Malware Analysis Appliance (MAA) before 4.2.5 and Malware Analyzer G2 allow remote attackers to bypass a virtual machine protection mechanism and consequently write to arbitrary files, cause a denial of service (host reboot or reset to factory defaults), or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to saving files during analysis.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

85%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
symantec	malware_analysis_appliance	`{"endIncluding":"4.2"}`
symantec	malware_analyzer_g2	`{"endIncluding":"3.5"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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