CVE-2017-6330 Denial of service in Symantec Encryption Desktop

What is CVE-2017-6330?

CVE-2017-6330 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Symantec Encryption Desktop, published on 13 Sep 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Symantec Encryption Desktop before SED 10.4.1MP2 can allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via crafted web requests."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6330?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Symantec Encryption Desktop.

How do I fix CVE-2017-6330?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6330 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-2017-6330 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6330 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Encryption Desktop

• CVE-2016-6590 Privilege escalation in Encryption Desktop High 7.8
• CVE-2012-4351 Integer overflow in n/a Medium 6.9
• CVE-2013-1610 Privilege escalation in n/a Medium 6.8
• CVE-2017-13682 Information disclosure in Symantec Encryption Desktop Medium 5.7
• CVE-2014-3436 Denial of service in n/a Medium 5.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g8cp-c3f8-rjmm.