Overview
Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2004 Professional is a software package that provides antivirus, antispam, and personal firewall applications. A vulnerability in an Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2004 suite may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the local system.
Description
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 and Professional for Windows installs the WrapNISUM Class (WrapUM.dll), an ActiveX control that is marked safe for scripting. The ActiveX control fails to properly parse and validate input from external sources. Using the "LaunchURL" method an attacker has the ability to force the browser to run arbitrary executables on the target system. The victim must open a malicious web page or HTML-formatted email message in order for this vulnerability to be exploited remotely. |
Impact
An attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerable to execute arbitrary commands on the target system. |
Solution
According to the Symantec advisory, customers should run Symantec LiveUpdate manually to ensure all installed Symantec products are fully updated.
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Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
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References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to NGSSoftware Insight Security Research for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jason A Rafail and is based on information provided by NGSSoftware Insight Security Research and Symantec.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2004-0364 |
| Severity Metric: | 12.43 |
| Date Public: | 2004-03-19 |
| Date First Published: | 2004-03-25 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2004-03-25 19:51 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 8 |