{"id":82140,"date":"2026-07-17T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-15379-arbitrary-file-read-as-system-in-symantec-itms\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:16:57","slug":"cve-2026-15379-arbitrary-file-read-as-system-in-symantec-itms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-15379-arbitrary-file-read-as-system-in-symantec-itms\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-15379 &#8211; Arbitrary File Read as SYSTEM in Symantec ITMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-15379<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 17, 2026, 8:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 20\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :The Altiris WMI provider exposes a class (AltirisAgent_Stream) that allows any local standard user to read the contents of any file accessible to the SYSTEM account, bypassing filesystem ACLs. No admin privileges required. The provider reverts to the LocalSystem context when servicing WMI queries without re-impersonating the caller. Any local standard user can therefore read SYSTEM-readable files \u2014 including configuration files, service logs, and secrets stored with SYSTEM\/Administrator-only ACLs \u2014 by querying the provider directly.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 5.1 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-15379 Published : July 17, 2026, 8:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 20\u00a0minutes ago Description :The Altiris WMI provider exposes a class (AltirisAgent_Stream) that allows any local standard user to read the contents of any file accessible to the SYSTEM account, bypassing filesystem ACLs. No admin privileges required. The provider reverts to the LocalSystem context &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}