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1 vulnerability found for Symantec Web Security Services Agent by Broadcom
CVE-2025-13917 (GCVE-0-2025-13917)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-01-28 16:29
Modified
2026-01-28 16:43
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
WSS Agent, prior to 9.8.5, may be susceptible to a Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadcom | Symantec Web Security Services Agent |
Version: 9.8.4 |
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