Symantec Endpoint Protection Windows Agent EoP via ERASER Engine <119.1.7.8
CVE-2025-3599 Published on April 30, 2025
Symantec Endpoint Protection Elevation of Privilege
Symantec Endpoint Protection Windows Agent, running an ERASER Engine prior to 119.1.7.8, may be susceptible to an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, which may allow an attacker to delete resources that are normally protected from an application or user.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-3599 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a TOCTTOU Vulnerability?
The software checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the software to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state. This weakness can be security-relevant when an attacker can influence the state of the resource between check and use. This can happen with shared resources such as files, memory, or even variables in multithreaded programs.
CVE-2025-3599 has been classified to as a TOCTTOU vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-3599
stack.watch emails you whenever new vulnerabilities are published in Broadcom Symantec Endpoint Protection or Symantec Endpoint Protection. Just hit a watch button to start following.
Affected Versions
Symantec Endpoint Protection Version 119.1.7.8 is unaffected by CVE-2025-3599Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.