CVE-2017-15527: Symantec Management Console

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs.

Affected products

• Symantec Management Console: before 8.1 (fixed in 8.1)

Published 2017-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.