CVE-2013-5009

high

Published 2014-01-10 · 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

7.4

Description

The Management Console in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.x before 11.0.7.4 and 12.x before 12.1.2 RU2 and Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 12.x before 12.1.2 RU2 does not properly perform authentication, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a limited-admin account.

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	endpoint_protection	`{"endIncluding":"11.0.7.3"}`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.1`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.2`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.4`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.3001`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.6000`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.6100`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.6200`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.6200.754`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.6300`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.7000`
symantec	endpoint_protection	`11.0.7100`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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