CVE-2016-5311

HIGH Year: 2016
CVSS v3 Score
7.8
High
CVSS v2 Score
6.9
Medium
Weakness Type
CWE-427
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Vulnerability Description

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client due to a DLL-preloading without path restrictions, which could let a local malicious user obtain system privileges.

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