CVE-2011-0545
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in adduser.do in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) before 2.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new administrative accounts, and possibly…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 2.9%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in adduser.do in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) before 2.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new administrative accounts, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via the userRole parameter.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 2.94% probability · 87th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 23 March 2011
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Affected
- symantec/liveupdate administrator
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43820Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8160
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025242Exploit
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txtExploit
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17026Exploit
- http://www.osvdb.org/71261
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517109/100/0/threaded
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2011&suid=20110321_00
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0727Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66213
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43820Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8160
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025242Exploit
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txtExploit
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17026Exploit
- http://www.osvdb.org/71261
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517109/100/0/threaded
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2011&suid=20110321_00
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0727Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66213
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.