CVE-2009-3028: Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 42.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Altiris eXpress NS SC Download ActiveX control in AeXNSPkgDLLib.dll, as used in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.9.x, Notification Server 6.0.x, and Symantec Management Platform 7.0.x exposes an unsafe method, which allows remote attackers to force the download of arbitrary files and possibly execute arbitrary code via the DownloadAndInstall method.

Affected products

• Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution: version 6.9 only
• Symantec Altiris Notification Server: version 6.0 only
• Symantec Management Platform: version 7.0 only

Published 2011-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.