CVE-2012-0289

high
Published 2012-05-23 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

Buffer overflow in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.0.600x through 11.0.710x and Symantec Network Access Control (SNAC) 11.0.600x through 11.0.710x allows local users to gain privileges, and modify data or cause a denial of service, via a crafted script.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18916 dos windows
41.w4r10r ยท 2012-05-23

Symantec End Point Protection 11.x / Symantec Network Access Control 11.x - Local Code Execution (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
symantecendpoint_protection11.0.6000
symantecendpoint_protection11.0.6100
symantecendpoint_protection11.0.6200
symantecendpoint_protection11.0.6200.754
symantecendpoint_protection11.0.6300
symantecendpoint_protection11.0.7000
symantecendpoint_protection11.0.7100
symantecnetwork_access_control11.0.6000
symantecnetwork_access_control11.0.6100
symantecnetwork_access_control11.0.6200
symantecnetwork_access_control11.0.6300
symantecnetwork_access_control11.0.7000
symantecnetwork_access_control11.0.7100

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.