CVE-2015-5692
admin_messages.php in the management console on Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) appliances with software before 5.2.2 DB 5.0.0.1277 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with a safe extension and content type, and…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (5.12%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
admin_messages.php in the management console on Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) appliances with software before 5.2.2 DB 5.0.0.1277 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with a safe extension and content type, and then leveraging an improper Sudo configuration to make this a setuid-root file.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.9 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 5.12% probability · 92th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- symantec/web gateway
- Source
- secure@symantec.com
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76726
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033625
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20150916_00Vendor Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-443/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76726
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033625
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20150916_00Vendor Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-443/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.