CVE-2018-12240

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.9
Description
The Norton Identity Safe product prior to 5.3.0.976 may be susceptible to a privilege escalation issue via a hard coded IV, which is a type of vulnerability that can potentially increase the likelihood of encrypted data being recovered without adequate credentials.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-12240
  • Assigner
  • secure@symantec.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-08-29T20:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-07-15T15:45:49
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-798 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/798.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_password_manager:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* 1 OR 5.3.0.976
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5.9
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.2
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1460.html Mitigation Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105146 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12240
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12240
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:40:42 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 11:35:51 2018-08-29T20:29Z 2018-08-29T20:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 11:35:52 2020-07-15T15:45:49 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 11:35:52 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated