CVE-2022-25623: Symantec Management Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Symantec Management Agent is susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A low privilege local account can be elevated to the SYSTEM level through registry manipulations.

Affected products

• Symantec Management Agent: version 8.5 only; version 8.6 only

Published 2022-03-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.