VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-7288

critical
Published 2015-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Symantec PGP Universal Server and Encryption Management Server before 3.3.2 MP7 allow remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted command line in a database-backup restore action.

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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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-35949 remote windows verified
Paul Craig · 2015-01-30

Symantec Encryption Management Server < 3.2.0 MP6 - Remote Command Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
symantecencryption_management_server{"endIncluding":"3.3.2"}
symantecpgp_universal_server{"endIncluding":"3.3.2"}

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.