VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0304

medium
Published 2012-06-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator before 2.3.1 uses weak permissions (Everyone: Full Control) for the installation directory, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
symantecliveupdate_administrator{"endIncluding":"2.3.0"}
symantecliveupdate_administrator1.5.3.21
symantecliveupdate_administrator1.5.4
symantecliveupdate_administrator1.5.7.19
symantecliveupdate_administrator2.1.0
symantecliveupdate_administrator2.1.2
symantecliveupdate_administrator2.1.3
symantecliveupdate_administrator2.2.1
symantecliveupdate_administrator2.2.2
symantecliveupdate_administrator2.2.2.9

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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