Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-5236 - Race Condition vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Symantec Endpoint Protection prior to 14 RU1 MP1 or 12.1 RU6 MP10 may be susceptible to a race condition (or race hazard). This type of issue occurs in software where the output is dependent on the sequence or timing of other uncontrollable events.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.
Nessus
| NASL family | Windows |
| NASL id | SYMANTEC_ENDPOINT_PROT_CLIENT_SYMSA1454.NASL |
| description | The version of Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) Client installed on the remote host is 12.1.x prior to 12.1 RU6 MP10 or 14.0.x prior to 14.0 RU1 MP1. It is, therefore, affected by a multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 110778 |
| published | 2018-06-28 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110778 |
| title | Symantec Endpoint Protection Client 12.1.x < 12.1 RU6 MP10 / 14.0.x < 14.0 RU1 MP1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SYMSA1454) |
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