Advisory Details

June 8th, 2012

Symantec Web Gateway Shell Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2012-0297
CVSS SCORE	7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Symantec
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Web Gateway
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Symantec Web Gateway. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists due to insufficiently filtered user-supplied data used in a call to exec() in multiple script pages. The affected scripts are located in '/spywall/ipchange.php' and 'network.php'. There is also a flaw in '/spywall/download_file.php' that allows unauthenticated users to download and delete any file on the server.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Symantec has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120517_00
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2011-11-22 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2012-06-08 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Tenable Network Security

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