CVE-2019-9698: Symantec Antivirus Engine

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Symantec AV Engine, prior to 13.0.9r17, may be susceptible to an arbitrary file deletion issue, which is a type of vulnerability that could allow an attacker to delete files on the resident system without elevated privileges.

Affected products

• Symantec Antivirus Engine: before 13.0.9r17 (fixed in 13.0.9r17)

Published 2019-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.