CVE-2017-15527 — Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs

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Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs

Published Nov 20, 2017

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 1.09%

Description

Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs.

Affected products

Vendor Symantec Corporation Product Symantec Management Console Default
n/a
- Version
  Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Symantec Corporation

Symantec Management Console

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4	affected	-

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.09% 0.01095

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

EPSS probability 0.01095

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (9 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.09% (0.01095)	64.30th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	1.09% (0.01095)	64.05th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	13.08th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 7, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	12.57th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00044)	10.56th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.62% (0.00624)	17.80th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.62% (0.00624)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingMitigationVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101743		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20171120_00		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingMitigationVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner symantec

Published Nov 20, 2017

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Oct 17, 2017

Link CVE-2017-15527

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2017-15527

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2017-15527