CVE-2015-1490 — Directory traversal vulnerability in the management console in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) 12.1 before 12.1-RU6-MP1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a relative pathname in a client installation package

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Directory traversal vulnerability in the management console in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) 12.1 before 12.1-RU6-MP1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a relative pathname in a client installation package

Published Aug 1, 2015

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.40%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the management console in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) 12.1 before 12.1-RU6-MP1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a relative pathname in a client installation package.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.40% 0.02396

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02396

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.40% (0.02396)	83.39th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.38% (0.02375)	81.61th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	2.36% (0.02362)	83.83th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.10% (0.00104)	44.04th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 13, 2024	0.10% (0.00104)	41.96th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 24, 2023	0.11% (0.00111)	43.29th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.12% (0.00120)	44.42th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.06% (0.01061)	52.82th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 19, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	51.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	49.19th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.06% (0.01061)	28.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (3)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76081
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033165
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20150730_00
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76081		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033165		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20150730_00		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner symantec

Published Aug 1, 2015

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Feb 5, 2015

Link CVE-2015-1490

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-1490

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-1490