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CVE-2018-5238
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-08-22T17:29:00.837 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:59:53.787

Summary

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 DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application.

Affected products

symantec — norton_power_eraser

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References

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