CVE-2020-5820: Symantec Endpoint Protection

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

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE), prior to 14.2 RU2 MP1 and prior to 14.2.5569.2100 respectively, 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 2020-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.