CVE-2018-5238

HIGH

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

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1459.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105100

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0050
EPSS Percentile 66.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-427
Status published
Products (2)
symantec/norton_power_eraser < 5.3.0.24
symantec/symdiag < 2.1.242
Published Aug 22, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026