CVE-2012-6533: Symantec Encryption Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in pgpwded.sys in Symantec PGP Desktop 10.x and Encryption Desktop 10.3.0 before MP1 on Windows XP and Server 2003 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application.

Affected products

• Symantec Encryption Desktop: version 10.3.0 only
• Symantec Pgp Desktop: version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; version 10.1.0 only; version 10.1.1 only; …

Published 2013-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.