CVE-2015-8799: Broadcom Symantec Critical System Protection

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Management Server in Symantec Embedded Security: Critical System Protection (SES:CSP) 1.0.x before 1.0 MP5, Embedded Security: Critical System Protection for Controllers and Devices (SES:CSP) 6.5.0 before MP1, Critical System Protection (SCSP) before 5.2.9 MP6, Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server (DCS:SA) 6.x before 6.5 MP1 and 6.6 before MP1, and Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server and Agents (DCS:SA) through 6.6 MP1 allows remote authenticated users to write update-package data to arbitrary agent locations via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Broadcom Symantec Critical System Protection: up to and including 5.2.9
• Broadcom Symantec Data Center Security Server: from 6.0.0, before 6.5.0 (fixed in 6.5.0); version 6.5.0 only; version 6.6.0 only
• Broadcom Symantec Data Center Security Server And Agents: version 6.6.0 only
• Broadcom Symantec Embedded Security Critical System Protection: up to and including 1.0
• Broadcom Symantec Embedded Security Critical System Protection For Controllers And Devices: version 6.5.0 only

Published 2016-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.