{"id":1050,"date":"2018-09-20T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2018-09-20T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:25:07","slug":"cve-2018-5240-symantec-management-agent-altiris-privilege-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2018-5240 &#8211; Symantec Management Agent (Altiris) Privilege Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, I found a zero day vulnerability in Altiris which allows a low level user to elevate privileges to SYSTEM on any host governed by Altiris. <\/p>\n<p>For more information on the vulnerability check out the Nettitude labs post below. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.nettitude.com\/blog\/cve-2018-5240-symantec-management-agent-altiris-privilege-escalation\/\">https:\/\/labs.nettitude.com\/blog\/cve-2018-5240-symantec-management-agent-altiris-privilege-escalation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Symantec have released some notes on the vulnerability here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.symantec.com\/en_US\/article.SYMSA1456.html\">https:\/\/support.symantec.com\/en_US\/article.SYMSA1456.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, I found a zero day vulnerability in Altiris which allows a low level user to elevate privileges to SYSTEM on any host governed by Altiris. For more information on the vulnerability check out the Nettitude labs post below. https:\/\/labs.nettitude.com\/blog\/cve-2018-5240-symantec-management-agent-altiris-privilege-escalation\/ Symantec have released some notes on the vulnerability here: https:\/\/support.symantec.com\/en_US\/article.SYMSA1456.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackwhackandsmack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}