CVE-2018-12238

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-12238
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-29 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionNorton prior to 22.15; Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) prior to 12.1.7454.7000 & 14.2; Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE) prior to NIS-22.15.1.8 & SEP-12.1.7454.7000; and Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud (SEP Cloud) prior to 22.15.1 may be susceptible to an AV bypass issue, which is a type of exploit that works to circumvent one of the virus detection engines to avoid a specific type of virus protection. One of the antivirus engines depends on a signature pattern from a database to identify malicious files and viruses; the antivirus bypass exploit looks to alter the file being scanned so it is not detected.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Symantec Endpoint Protection All All All All
Application Symantec Endpoint Protection All All All All
Application Symantec Endpoint Protection All All All All
Application Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud All All All All
Application Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud All All All All
Application Symantec Norton Antivirus All All All All
Application Symantec Norton Antivirus All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Norton and SEP Multiple Issues CONFIRM support.symantec.com Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Multiple Symantec Products CVE-2018-12238 Local Security Bypass Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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