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FKIE_CVE-2018-18369

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-04-25 17:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:47

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Norton Security (Windows client) prior to 22.16.3 and SEP SBE (Windows client) prior to Cloud Agent 3.00.31.2817, NIS-22.15.2.22 & SEP-12.1.7484.7002, 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.

References

URL	Tags
secure@symantec.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107997	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secure@symantec.com	https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1479.html	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107997	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1479.html	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
symantec	endpoint_protection	nis-22.15.2.22
symantec	endpoint_protection	sep-12.1.7484.7002
symantec	endpoint_protection_cloud	*
symantec	endpoint_protection_cloud_agent	*
symantec	norton_security	*

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CVE-2018-18369 (GCVE-0-2018-18369)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-25 16:55 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:08

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

DLL Preloading

Assigner

symantec mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107997	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Symantec Corporation	Norton Security	Affected: Prior to 22.16.3
Symantec Corporation	Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition	Affected: Prior to Cloud Agent 3.00.31.2817 Affected: NIS-22.15.2.22 Affected: SEP-12.1.7484.7002

Date Public

2019-04-15 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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