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CVE-2011-0545

34
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0545 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) versions prior to 2.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to hijack authenticated administrator sessions to create new administrative accounts, potentially leading to unauthorized access and control. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity with network access, medium attack complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an HTML injection exploit (EDB-17026) exists, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:liveupdate_administrator:2.2.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-17026 · Mar 23, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0294 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/43820
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/8160
securitytracker.com / id
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/66213
sotiriu.de / adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txt
Exploit
exploit-db.com / exploits/17026
Exploit
osvdb.org / 71261
securityfocus.com / archive/1/517109/100/0/threaded
symantec.com / security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0727
Vendor Advisory