CVE-2008-6827
The ListView control in the Client GUI (AClient.exe) in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x before 6.9.355 SP1 allows local users to…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 35% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The ListView control in the Client GUI (AClient.exe) in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x before 6.9.355 SP1 allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges and execute arbitrary commands via a "Shatter" style attack on the "command prompt" hidden GUI button to (1) overwrite the CommandLine parameter to cmd.exe to use SYSTEM privileges and (2) modify the DLL that is loaded using the LoadLibrary API function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 1021071 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20081020 Insomnia : ISVA-081020.1 - Altiris Deployment Server Agent - Privilege Escalation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.10.20a.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31773 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- symantec-ads-clientgui-command-execution(46006) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2876 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 49426 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.insomniasec.com/advisories/ISVA-081020.1.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 31766 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2008-6787 (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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