CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-15531 — Symantec Reporter security vulnerability
Critical
CVSS 9.8
Symantec Reporter 9.5 prior to 9.5.4.1 and 10.1 prior to 10.1.5.5 does not restrict excessive authentication attempts for management interface users. A remote attacker can use brute force search to guess a user password and gain access to Reporter.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.0)
- Published
- 2018-01-23
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Affected products
- symantec / reporter
- symantec / reporter / 10.1
Matched remediation archetype
Authentication bypass and missing authentication
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Check exposure
- Map every affected endpoint and protocol path, including alternate ports, legacy routes, recovery flows, service accounts, and machine-to-machine access.
- Confirm which deployments enable the affected authentication mode and whether the interface is reachable from untrusted networks.
- Review session, token, credential, and proxy trust configuration without attempting account takeover.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and centralize fail-closed authentication before protected request handling.
- Remove default or embedded credentials, rotate affected secrets and sessions, and bind authentication decisions to the intended audience and channel.
- Add negative tests for alternate routes, malformed or absent credentials, recovery flows, and proxy-derived identity.
Authoritative sources
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