CVE-2012-2977

medium
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Description

The management console in Symantec Web Gateway 5.0.x before 5.0.3.18 allows remote attackers to change arbitrary passwords via crafted input to an application script.

References

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/108471

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54430

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120720_00

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2012-07-23

Updated: 2017-12-22

Type: CWE-264

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

Vulnerable Software

Configuration 1

OR

cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:5.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*