Is SPE impacted by CVE-2025-68161
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Is SPE impacted by CVE-2025-68161

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Article ID: 426458

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Products

Protection Engine for Cloud Services Protection Engine for NAS

Issue/Introduction

You request to know if Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) is impacted by CVE-2025-68161.

Environment

SPE 9.x

Resolution

SPE does not utilize the socket appender component (the vulnerable component in this CVE) and is therefore not impacted by CVE-2025-68161.  Additionally the log4j2 version will be updated to 2.25.3, which is not impacted by CVE-2025-68161, in a future version of SPE.