VYPR
High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 9, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-5311

CVE-2016-5311

Description

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Symantec Norton Antivirus, Norton AntiVirus with Backup, Norton Security, Norton Security with Backup, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Cloud, and Endpoint Protection Cloud Client due to a DLL-preloading without path restrictions, which could let a local malicious user obtain system privileges.

Affected products

14

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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