CVE-2020-5837

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-5837
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-11 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-05-14 19:20:00 UTC
DescriptionSymantec Endpoint Protection, prior to 14.3, may not respect file permissions when writing to log files that are replaced by symbolic links, which can lead to a potential elevation of privilege.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Symantec Endpoint Protection All All All All
Application Symantec Endpoint Protection All All All All

References

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