01 Record

CVE-2018-5238

Norton Power Eraser (prior to 5.3.0.24) and SymDiag (prior to 2.1.242) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: symantec

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 1.57% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 75.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2018-08-22 17:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-17 00:21Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2018-01-05

Assigning CNA

symantec

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-427Uncontrolled Search Path ElementBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

c48754c8ac38884a2cab2638c147db44dc42d90473cecb3683cba0a67d4bada2

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

Symantec CorporationNorton Power EraserPrior to 5.3.0.24—

Symantec CorporationSymDiagPrior to 2.1.242—

06 References

support.symantec.comhttps://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1459.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
www.securityfocus.com105100http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105100vdb-entryx_refsource_BID