CVE-2011-0545
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 2.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-352
- EPSS score
- 2.9% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0563)
- Published
- March 28, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0563 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- symantec / liveupdate administrator
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43820(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8160
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025242(Exploit)
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txt(Exploit)
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17026(Exploit)
- 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/2011/0727(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66213
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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