CVE-2016-6590 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple Symantec enterprise products, including IT Management Suite, Ghost Solution Suite, Endpoint Virtualization, and Encryption Desktop. This flaw allows a local, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code by exploiting DLL loading during system boot or reboot. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 10.0.0, < 10.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:encryption_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 7.0, < 7.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_encryption:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_encryption:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:ghost_solution_suite:3.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:ghost_solution_suite:3.1:maintenance_pack1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.