CVE-2007-2359 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Ghost Service Manager, impacting several Symantec products including Norton Ghost, Norton Save & Recovery, LiveState Recovery, and BackupExec System Recovery prior to April 26, 2007. This flaw allows a local attacker to achieve elevated privileges by submitting an excessively long string. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its low attack complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:backupexec_system_recovery:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.52CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:backupexec_system_recovery:6.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.52aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:backupexec_system_recovery:6.52a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.53CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:backupexec_system_recovery:6.53:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:livestate_recovery:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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.