CVE-2022-25623

HIGH 7.8CVE-2022-25623 · Published 04/03/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-25623 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting management agent (symantec).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.28%, higher than 20.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
management agent symantec	`= 8.5= 8.6`	No fix yet

Description

The Symantec Management Agent is susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A low privilege local account can be elevated to the SYSTEM level through registry manipulations.

References

support.broadcom.com/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/20366 · Vendor Advisory

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