CVE-2024-23617 (GCVE-0-2024-23617)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-25 23:32 – Updated: 2024-10-18 15:22
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Symantec Data Loss Prevention Buffer Overflow
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Symantec Data Loss Prevention version 14.0.2 and before. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a crafted document to achieve code execution.
Severity
9.6 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-29 18:48 UTC
CWE
- CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://blog.exodusintel.com/2024/01/25/symantec-… | third-party-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symantec | Data Loss Prevention |
Affected:
12.0 , ≤ 14.0.2
(semver)
|
guessed |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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