CVE-2005-2766

LOW 2.1CVE-2005-2766 · Published 02/09/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-2766 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting norton antivirus (symantec).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.40%, higher than 34.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
norton antivirus symantec	`= 9.0.1.1.1000= 9.0.4`	No fix yet

Description

Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0.1.x and 9.0.4.x, and possibly other versions, when obtaining updates from an internal LiveUpdate server, stores sensitive information in cleartext in the Log.Liveupdate log file, which allows attackers to obtain the username and password to the internal LiveUpdate server.

References

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