Norton Utilities (prior to 16.0.3.44) may be susceptible to a DLL Preloading vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
6.0 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)