CVE-2019-12757: Symantec Endpoint Protection

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP), prior to 14.2 RU2 & 12.1 RU6 MP10 and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE) prior to 12.1 RU6 MP10d (12.1.7510.7002), may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.

Affected products

• Symantec Endpoint Protection: version 11.0 only; version 12.1 only; version 14.0.0 only; version 14.0.1 only; version 14.2 only; version 12.0 only

Published 2019-11-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.