CVE-2007-5838: Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Aclient in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.x before 6.8.380.0 allows local users to gain local System privileges via the "Enable key-based authentication to Deployment server" browser option, a different issue than CVE-2007-4380.

Affected products

• Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution: version 6 only; version 6.8 only

Published 2007-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.