CVE-2018-5238

HIGH

Norton Power Eraser <5.3.0.24 & SymDiag <2.1.242 - DLL Preloading

Title source: llm

Description

Norton Power Eraser (prior to 5.3.0.24) and SymDiag (prior to 2.1.242) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0050
EPSS Percentile 65.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-427
Status published

Affected Products (2)

symantec/norton_power_eraser < 5.3.0.24
symantec/symdiag < 2.1.242

Timeline

Published Aug 22, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026