HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-2286

Altiris Deployment Solution vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
32.7%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
SQL injection vulnerability in axengine.exe in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution 6.8.x and 6.9.x before 6.9.176 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified string fields in a notification packet.
Affected vendor
Symantec
Affected product
Altiris Deployment Solution
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-05-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 32.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-2286

  • Confirm whether Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-2286.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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