CVE-2018-12243

high

Description

The Symantec Messaging Gateway product prior to 10.6.6 may be susceptible to a XML external entity (XXE) exploit, which is a type of issue where XML input containing a reference to an external entity is processed by a weakly configured XML parser. The attack uses file URI schemes or relative paths in the system identifier to access files that should not normally be accessible.

References

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.SYMSA1461.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105330

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-19

Updated: 2018-12-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High