CVE-2016-2207 describes a critical vulnerability in the AntiVirus Decomposer engine across numerous Symantec and Norton products, including Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec Mail Security, and various Norton consumer security suites. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial of service by processing a specially crafted RAR file during decompression. With a CVSS score of 8.4 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and does not require user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating a high level of awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 7.0, <= 7.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:mail_security_for_microsoft_exchange:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 7.5, <= 7.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:mail_security_for_microsoft_exchange:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:mail_security_for_microsoft_exchange:6.5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_power_eraser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:protection_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.