Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
6.8 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)