CVE-2019-18372 (GCVE-0-2019-18372)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-11-15 17:41
Modified
2024-08-05 01:54
Severity ?
CWE
  • Privilege Escalation
Summary
Symantec Endpoint Protection, prior to 14.2 RU2, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Symantec Endpoint Protection Version: prior to 14.2 RU2
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