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CVE-2018-5238 — Norton Power Eraser (prior to 5

Norton Power Eraser (prior to 5.3.0.24) and SymDiag (prior to 2.1.242) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depe

CVSS
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EPSS
0.50% (top 34.50%)
CWE
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Published
2018-08-22T17:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-09-17T00:21:49.834Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

Norton Power Eraser (prior to 5.3.0.24) and SymDiag (prior to 2.1.242) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Symantec CorporationNorton Power EraserPrior to 5.3.0.24
Symantec CorporationSymDiagPrior to 2.1.242

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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