CVE-2015-8799
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2016-06-08
- Fixed in6.5.0
- WeaknessCWE-22
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Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Management Server in Symantec Embedded Security: Critical System Protection (SES:CSP) 1.0.x before 1.0 MP5, Embedded Security: Critical System Protection for Controllers and Devices (SES:CSP) 6.5.0 before MP1, Critical System Protection (SCSP) before 5.2.9 MP6, Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server (DCS:SA) 6.x before 6.5 MP1 and 6.6 before MP1, and Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server and Agents (DCS:SA) through 6.6 MP1 allows remote authenticated users to write update-package data to arbitrary agent locations via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2016-06-0814:59CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 21:37 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2015-8799?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2015-8799?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x | ≥ 6.0.0, < 6.5.0 | 6.5.0 | NVD |
| 6.5 | = 6.5.0 | no fix published | NVD |
| 6.6 | = 6.6.0 | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | ≤ 5.2.9 | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | = 6.6.0 | no fix published | NVD |
2 more products in the sources.
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
- Update Broadcom symantec data center security server to 6.5.0
Advisories and patches
- www.symantec.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.17.6read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.07.1read 2026-10-23
- NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-22read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score5.3 %2026-10-23
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2016-06-08
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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