CVE-2011-0545

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-03-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in adduser.do in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) before 2.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new administrative accounts, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via the userRole parameter.

Affected products

Symantec Liveupdate Administrator: 2.2.2.9

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/43820
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8160
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025242
http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txt
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17026
http://www.osvdb.org/71261
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517109/100/0/threaded
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2011&suid=20110321_00
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0727
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66213
http://secunia.com/advisories/43820
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8160

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