Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33, and possibly earlier, does not properly protect Norton registry keys, which allows local…

Description

Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2006 9.1.0.33, and possibly earlier, does not properly protect Norton registry keys, which allows local users to provide Trojan horse libraries to Norton by using RegSaveKey and RegRestoreKey to modify HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\CCPD\SuiteOwners, as demonstrated using NISProd.dll. NOTE: in most cases, this attack would not cross privilege boundaries, because modifying the SuiteOwners key requires administrative privileges. However, this issue is a vulnerability because the product's functionality is intended to protect against privileged actions such as this.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.6.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (4)

• 1428 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 19585 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Norton-DLL-faking-via-SuiteOwners-protection-bypass.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20060818 Norton DLL faking via 'SuiteOwners' protection bypass Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2006-4266](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-4266.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-4266)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 19:06 UTC.