Symantec Endpoint Protection clients place detected malware in quarantine as part of the intended product functionality. The quarantine…

Description

Symantec Endpoint Protection clients place detected malware in quarantine as part of the intended product functionality. The quarantine logs can be exported for review by the user in a variety of formats including .CSV files. Prior to 14.0 MP1 and 12.1 RU6 MP7, the potential exists for file metadata to be interpreted and evaluated as a formula. Successful exploitation of an attack of this type requires considerable direct user-interaction from the user exporting and then opening the log files on the intended target client.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• Formula Injection
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Symantec Corporation · Endpoint Protection

  • affected Prior to SEP 14.0 MP1 & SEP 12.1 RU6 MP7

References (3)

• 96298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1037961 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20170306_00 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2016-9094](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2016-9094.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2016-9094)

Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 17:18 UTC.