CVE-2002-0344: Symantec Liveupdate

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Symantec LiveUpdate 1.5 and earlier in Norton Antivirus stores usernames and passwords for a local LiveUpdate server in cleartext in the registry, which may allow remote attackers to impersonate the LiveUpdate server.

Affected products

• Symantec Liveupdate: up to and including 1.5

Published 2002-06-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.