CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-16962

Write-what-where Condition

Published: Sep 12, 2018 | Modified: Sep 08, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Webroot SecureAnywhere before 9.0.8.34 on macOS mishandles access to the driver by a process that lacks root privileges.

Weakness

Any condition where the attacker has the ability to write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, often as the result of a buffer overflow.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Secureanywhere Webroot * 9.0.8.34 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References