CVE-2001-1125

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Mar 15, 2002
Updated: Jan 16, 2025
Reserved: Mar 15, 2002

Description

Symantec LiveUpdate before 1.6 does not use cryptography to ensure the integrity of download files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via DNS spoofing of the update.symantec.com site.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20011005 Symantec LiveUpdate attacksmailing-list
3403vdb-entry
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/security/Content/2001.10.05.html
liveupdate-host-verification(7235)vdb-entry

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