CVE-2016-6590
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when loading DLLs during boot up and reboot in Symantec IT Management Suite 8.0 prior to 8.0…
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- symantec
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists when loading DLLs during boot up and reboot in Symantec IT Management Suite 8.0 prior to 8.0 HF4 and Suite 7.6 prior to 7.6 HF7, Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 3.1 prior to 3.1 MP4, Symantec Endpoint Virtualization 7.x prior to 7.6 HF7, and Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.x prior to 10.4.1, which could let a local malicious user execute arbitrary code.
Timeline
ID reserved
By symantec
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- untrusted search path
- CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
Affected products
Symantec · IT Management Suite
- affected 8.0 prior to 8.0 HF4 and 7.6 prior to 7.6 HF7
Symantec · Ghost Solution Suite
- affected 3.1 prior to 3.1 MP4
Symantec · Symantec Endpoint Virtualization
- affected 7.x prior to 7.6 HF
- affected 0.x prior to 10.4.1
- affected n/a
References (3)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94279 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037302 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.symantec.com/us/en/article.symsa1385.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- 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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