CVE-2006-6308
Symantec LiveState 7.1 Agent for Windows allows local users to gain privileges by stopping the shstart.exe process and open "Web…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.34%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 72% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Symantec LiveState 7.1 Agent for Windows allows local users to gain privileges by stopping the shstart.exe process and open "Web Self-Service" from the system tray icon, which will open a browser window running with elevated privileges. NOTE: several third-party researchers have noted that administrator privileges may be necessary to terminate shstart.exe. If this is the case, then no privilege escalation occurs, and this is not a vulnerability
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- 20061206 RE: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20061205 RE: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20061205 Re: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1017332 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20061205 Re: Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerabi (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20061204 Symantec LiveState Agent for Windows vulnerability - Local Privilege Escalation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- symantec-shstart-privilege-escalation(30728) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-6291 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-6308)Record last updated .