CVE-2018-5240 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Inventory Plugin for Symantec Management Agent versions prior to 7.6 POST HF7, 8.0 POST HF6, or 8.1 RU7. This vulnerability, rated 8.0 HIGH on the CVSS scale, allows a low-privileged authenticated attacker on the adjacent network to gain high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability without user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant media coverage, though it has seen minimal community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:inventory:*:*:*:*:*:management_agent:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:inventory:8.0:hf6:*:*:*:management_agent:*:* | ||
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:inventory:8.1:ru7:*:*:*:management_agent:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.