{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1540 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1540 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2002-1540 is a high-severity vulnerability in Symantec Norton Antivirus, published on 1 Sep 2004. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2002-1540 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2002-1540 is a high-severity vulnerability in Symantec Norton Antivirus, published on 1 Sep 2004. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1540 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Symantec Norton Antivirus. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-1540/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-1540/index.md)","id":"CVE-2002-1540","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-1540/index.md","name":"CVE-2002-1540","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-9r86-74vm-r67j"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Norton AntiVirus client","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can escalate privileges by exploiting the Norton AntiVirus client's execution of winhlp32 with elevated rights.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"norton_antivirus","vendor":"symantec"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"The client for Symantec Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.5.x before 7.5.1 Build 62 and 7.6.x before 7.6.1 Build 35a runs winhlp32 with raised privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by using certain features of winhlp32.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2002-1540","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"symantec:norton_antivirus","products":["symantec:norton_antivirus"],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2002"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2002-1541"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2002-1539"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2004-09-01","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2005-2017","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-08-29"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2004-0487","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2004-06-03"},{"cvss_score":8.5,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2006-3456","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-05-11"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2002-2206","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-11-16"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2002-1774","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-06-21"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2002-1775","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-06-21"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2002-1776","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-06-21"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-08","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can escalate privileges by exploiting the Norton AntiVirus client's execution of winhlp32 with elevated rights.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-1540/"}