Privilege escalation through undisclosed mechanism
Published Aug 11, 2025 · Updated Aug 11, 2025
Privilege escalation in Broadcom Symantec PGP Encryption 11.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to alter protected resources. Broadcom has not disclosed the affected component or the operation that mishandles attacker-controlled input. Exploitation requires high privileges, active user interaction, and additional environmental conditions; the published impact is limited to integrity loss.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Broadcom Symantec PGP Encryption 11.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to alter protected resources. Broadcom has not disclosed the affected component or the operation that mishandles attacker-controlled input. Exploitation requires high privileges, active user interaction, and additional environmental conditions; the published impact is limited to integrity loss.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-8660
- Published
- Aug 11, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 11, 2025
- Vendor
- Broadcom
- Product
- Symantec PGP Encryption
- Classifications
- CWE-269
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 11, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 11, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=11.0.1
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