CVE-2017-15525 Denial of service in Symantec Endpoint Encryption
Attackers can cause a denial of service in Symantec Endpoint Encryption, disrupting availability for users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-15525?
CVE-2017-15525 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Encryption, published on 13 Nov 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Prior to SEE v11.1.3MP1, Symantec Endpoint Encryption can be susceptible to a denial of service (DoS) attack, which is a type of attack whereby the perpetrator attempts to make a particular machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a specific host within a network.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15525?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Symantec Endpoint Encryption.
How do I fix CVE-2017-15525?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-15525 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-15525 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15525 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Endpoint Encryption
- CVE-2019-9702 Privilege escalation in Endpoint Encryption
- CVE-2019-9703 Symantec Endpoint Encryption, prior to SEE 11.3.0, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue that
- CVE-2019-9694 Privilege escalation in Symantec Endpoint Encryption
- CVE-2015-8156 Privilege escalation in n/a
- CVE-2017-15526 Null dereference in Symantec Endpoint Encryption
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f4hx-m36j-86cj.