CVE-2016-5311
HIGHDescription
A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client due to a DLL-preloading without path restrictions, which could let a local malicious user obtain system privileges.
How to fix
Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 49% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
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| CVE-2020-27955 | Critical | 9.8 | 83% | - | - |
| CVE-2017-6517 | Critical | 9.8 | 46% | - | - |
| CVE-2020-3153 | Medium | 6.5 | 28% | KEV + Ransom | Fix |
| CVE-2024-48990 | High | 7.8 | 20% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2019-9491 | High | 7.8 | 13% | - | - |
| CVE-2020-3433 | High | 7.8 | 10% | KEV + Ransom | Fix |
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