Spoofing attack in Norton Password Manager - CVE-2018-18365

 

Spoofing attack in Norton Password Manager - CVE-2018-18365

Published: February 18, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU17748
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18365
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Broadcom
Affected software:
Norton Password Manager

Detailed vulnerability description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a physical high-privileged attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The weakness exists due to address spoofing. A physical attacker can disguise origin IP address in order to obfuscate the source of network traffic.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-18365

The vulnerability has been addressed in the version 6.2.0.1078 for Android and 6.2.309 for iOS.

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