CVE-2006-3457

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Symantec On-Demand Agent (SODA) before 2.5 MR2 Build 2157, and the Virtual Desktop module in Symantec On-Demand Protection (SODP) before 2.6 Build 2233, do not properly encrypt files that are subject to policy-based automatic encryption, which might allow local users to read sensitive data via an unspecified decryption method.

Affected products

Symantec On-Demand Agent: through 2.5_mr2_build_2156
Symantec On-Demand Protection: through 2.6_build_2232

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21280
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016619
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441850/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19248
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.08.01a.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3097
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28181
http://secunia.com/advisories/21280
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016619
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441850/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19248
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2006.08.01a.html

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