CVE-2009-3108: Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution

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

The Aclient GUI in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.9.x before 6.9 SP3 Build 430 installs a client executable with insecure permissions (Everyone:Full Control), which allows local users to gain privileges by replacing the executable with a Trojan horse program.

Affected products

• Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution: version 6.9 only; version 6.9.164 only; version 6.9.176 only; version 6.9.355 only

Published 2009-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.