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CVE-2007-5838
Aclient in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x before 6.8.380.0 allows local users to gain local System privileges via the "Enable…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 67% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Aclient in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x before 6.8.380.0 allows local users to gain local System privileges via the "Enable key-based authentication to Deployment server" browser option, a different issue than CVE-2007-4380.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 1018876 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.irmplc.com/index.php/111-Vendor-Alerts (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3673 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.irmplc.com/index.php/152-Advisory-022 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 27412 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.10.31a.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 26265 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- symantec-altiris-browser-priv-escalation(38180) (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-2007-5808 (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-2007-5838)Record last updated .