Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-5238
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.005
EPSS Ranking 64.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 6.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2018-5238
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cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_power_eraser:5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:symantec:symdiag:2.1.228
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cpe:2.3:a:symantec:symdiag:2.1.230
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cpe:2.3:a:symantec:symdiag:2.1.234
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cpe:2.3:a:symantec:symdiag:2.1.236
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cpe:2.3:a:symantec:symdiag:2.1.240