CVE-2017-15527

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-11-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs.

Affected products

Symantec Corporation Symantec Management Console: before 8.1 — fixed in 8.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Symantec Corporation Symantec Management Console 8.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00

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