CVE-2019-9698

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.5) in symantec antivirus engine. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Symantec AV Engine, prior to 13.0.9r17, may be susceptible to an arbitrary file deletion issue, which is a type of vulnerability that could allow an attacker to delete files on the resident system without elevated privileges.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 25% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2019-05-08
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

symantec:antivirus_engine

References

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1481.html
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1481.html

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