CVE-2015-8799

high
Published 2016-06-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
7.6

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Management Server in Symantec Embedded Security: Critical System Protection (SES:CSP) 1.0.x before 1.0 MP5, Embedded Security: Critical System Protection for Controllers and Devices (SES:CSP) 6.5.0 before MP1, Critical System Protection (SCSP) before 5.2.9 MP6, Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server (DCS:SA) 6.x before 6.5 MP1 and 6.6 before MP1, and Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server and Agents (DCS:SA) through 6.6 MP1 allows remote authenticated users to write update-package data to arbitrary agent locations via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
74%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware broadcomsymantec_critical_system_protection{"endIncluding":"5.2.9"}
vmware broadcomsymantec_data_center_security_server{"startIncluding":"6.0.0","endExcluding":"6.5.0"}6.5.0
vmware broadcomsymantec_data_center_security_server6.5.0
vmware broadcomsymantec_data_center_security_server6.6.0
vmware broadcomsymantec_data_center_security_server_and_agents6.6.0

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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