CVE-2013-5014: Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 67.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The management console in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) 11.0 before 11.0.7405.1424 and 12.1 before 12.1.4023.4080, and Symantec Protection Center Small Business Edition 12.x before 12.1.4023.4080, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via XML data containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

• Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager: version 11.0 only; version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.1.2 only; version 12.1.3 only
• Symantec Protection Center: version 12.0 only

Published 2014-02-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.