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CVE-2018-5236

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-5236 describes a race condition vulnerability affecting Symantec Endpoint Protection versions prior to 14 RU1 MP1 or 12.1 RU6 MP10. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) could allow an authenticated, low-privileged attacker to cause a denial-of-service by exploiting the timing-dependent nature of the software, though high attack complexity is required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 14.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_protection:12.1:ru6mp10:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:endpoint_protection:14.0:ru1mp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0109 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 1,428 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

support.symantec.com / en_US/article.SYMSA1454.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/104198
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1041180
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry