CVE-2012-4350

high

Published 2012-12-18 · 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

7.2

Description

Multiple unquoted Windows search path vulnerabilities in the (1) Manager and (2) Agent components in Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) before 11.0 allow local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
symantec	enterprise_security_manager	`{"endIncluding":"10.0"}`
symantec	enterprise_security_manager	`6.0`
symantec	enterprise_security_manager	`6.5`
symantec	enterprise_security_manager	`6.5.0`
symantec	enterprise_security_manager	`6.5.1`
symantec	enterprise_security_manager	`6.5.2`
symantec	enterprise_security_manager	`6.5.3`
symantec	enterprise_security_manager	`9.0`
symantec	enterprise_security_manager	`9.0.1`

References

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

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