CVE-2006-1836

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in unspecified components in Symantec LiveUpdate for Macintosh 3.0.0 through 3.5.0 do not set the execution path, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program.

Affected products

Symantec Liveupdate: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.5
Symantec Norton Antivirus: 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 10.0, 10.0.0 (+2)
Symantec Norton Internet Security: 3.0
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall: 3.0, 3.1
Symantec Norton System Works: 3.0
Symantec Corporation Norton Utilities: 8.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19682
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/100
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.04.17b.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015953
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431318/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17571
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1386
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25839
http://secunia.com/advisories/19682
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/100
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.04.17b.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015953

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