{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5238 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2018-5238 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2018-5238 is a high-severity vulnerability in Symantec Corporation Norton Power Eraser, published on 22 Aug 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-5238 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-5238 is a high-severity vulnerability in Symantec Corporation Norton Power Eraser, published on 22 Aug 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5238 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Symantec Corporation Norton Power Eraser. 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-2018-5238/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-5238/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-5238","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-5238/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-5238","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-cf5f-pw2j-32gg"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Norton Power Eraser","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious DLL in the application's search path, affecting Norton Power Eraser and SymDiag users.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"other"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"symantec","cpe":[{"product":"norton_power_eraser","vendor":"symantec"},{"product":"symdiag","vendor":"symantec"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-427","name":"Uncontrolled Search Path Element"}],"description":"Norton Power Eraser (prior to 5.3.0.24) and SymDiag (prior to 2.1.242) 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. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application.","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":"Other in Norton Power Eraser","id":"CVE-2018-5238","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"other","year":"2018"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Security feature bypass in Norton App Lock","id":"CVE-2018-5239"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in Symantec Endpoint Protection","id":"CVE-2018-5237"},"products":["Norton Power Eraser","SymDiag"],"published":"2018-08-22","related":[],"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":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-17","vendors":["Symantec Corporation"]},"summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary code by placing a malicious DLL in the application's search path, affecting Norton Power Eraser and SymDiag users.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-5238/"}