CVE-2011-3478

highpriority · attend · 64EPSS 0.395 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

39.5% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The host-services component in Symantec pcAnywhere 12.5.x through 12.5.3, and IT Management Suite pcAnywhere Solution 7.0 (aka 12.5.x) and 7.1 (aka 12.6.x), does not properly filter login and authentication data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted session on TCP port 5631.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-287USprimary

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-19407Symantec pcAnywhere 12.5.0 - 'Login' / 'Password' Remote Buffer Overflowfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-38599Symantec pcAnywhere 12.5.0 (Windows x86) - Remote Code Executionfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
symantec pcanywhere= 12.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:symantec:pcanywhere:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
symantec pcanywhere= 12.5.539nvdUScpe:2.3:a:symantec:pcanywhere:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
symantec pcanywhere= 12.6.65nvdUScpe:2.3:a:symantec:pcanywhere:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
symantec pcanywhere= 12.6.7580nvdUScpe:2.3:a:symantec:pcanywhere:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-01-25modified 2026-06-16

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references (16)

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