CVE-2018-18369 Other in Norton Security
Attackers can execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious DLL in a location searched by the application before the legitimate one.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-18369?
CVE-2018-18369 is a high-severity vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection, published on 25 Apr 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-426
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-18369?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud, Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud Agent, Symantec Norton Security.
How do I fix CVE-2018-18369?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-18369 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2018-18369 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-18369 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Endpoint Protection
- CVE-2012-0295 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-2018-5237 Privilege escalation in Symantec Endpoint Protection
- CVE-2020-5836 Privilege escalation in Symantec Endpoint Protection
- CVE-2020-5837 Path traversal in Symantec Endpoint Protection
- CVE-2020-5820 Privilege escalation in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cqr9-3mc7-gvpr.