CVE-2016-2202 — The Inventory Solution component in the Management Agent in the client in Symantec Altiris IT Management Suite (ITMS) through 7.6 HF7 allows local users to bypass intended application-blacklist restrictions via unspecified vectors

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The Inventory Solution component in the Management Agent in the client in Symantec Altiris IT Management Suite (ITMS) through 7.6 HF7 allows local users to bypass intended application-blacklist restrictions via unspecified vectors

Published Apr 20, 2016

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.33%

Description

The Inventory Solution component in the Management Agent in the client in Symantec Altiris IT Management Suite (ITMS) through 7.6 HF7 allows local users to bypass intended application-blacklist restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.33% 0.00330

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

EPSS probability 0.00330

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.33% (0.00330)	23.77th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.33% (0.00330)	24.56th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00061)	16.26th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	11.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	9.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00043)	7.45th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85778
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20160407_00
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85778		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20160407_00		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner symantec

Published Apr 20, 2016

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Feb 2, 2016

Link CVE-2016-2202

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-2202

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-2202