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                               ESB-2020.0150
            SYMSA1503-Norton Power Eraser Privilege Escalation
                              16 January 2020

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           Norton Power Eraser
Publisher:         Symantec
Operating System:  Windows
Impact/Access:     Increased Privileges -- Existing Account
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2019-19548  

Original Bulletin: 
   http://support.symantec.com/us/en/article.SYMSA1503.html

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Norton Power Eraser Privilege Escalation

SYMSA1503
Last Updated January 14, 2020
Initial Publication Date January 06, 2020

  o Status: Closed
  o Severity: Medium
  o CVSS Base Score: 5.3

Summary

Affected Products


+-------------------------------------------------------+
|Norton Power Eraser                                    |
+---------------+-------------------+-------------------+
|CVE            |Affected Version(s)|Remediation        |
+---------------+-------------------+-------------------+
|CVE-2019-19548|Prior to 5.3.0.67  |Upgrade to 5.3.0.67|
+---------------+-------------------+-------------------+

Issues


+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|CVE-2019-19548                                                              |
+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
|Severity/   |Medium / 4.8 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L                |
|CVSSv3:     |                                                                |
+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
|References: |Security Focus: BID 111414 / NVD: CVE-2019-19548                |
|            |                                                                |
|Impact:     |Privilege Escalation                                            |
+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
|            |Norton Power Eraser, prior to 5.3.0.67, may be susceptible to a |
|            |privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue    |
|Description:|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.                 |
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Mitigation



A Norton Power Eraser update, version 5.3.0.67, has been made available to
address this issue. The latest Norton Power Eraser downloads are available to
customers via the Norton Support portal. At this time, there is no evidence of
any attempts at this exploit in the wild.

Acknowledgements



  o CVE-2019-19548: Eran Shimony <@EranShimony> of CyberArk Labs

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