Vulnerabilites related to Symantec Corporation - Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) and ProxySG
cve-2016-9097
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-11 14:01
Modified
2024-09-16 17:33
Severity ?
Summary
The Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.5 prior 6.5.10.6, ProxySG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, and ProxySG 6.7 prior to 6.7.1.2 management consoles do not, under certain circumstances, correctly authorize administrator users. A malicious administrator with read-only access can exploit this vulnerability to access management console functionality that requires read-write access privileges.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Symantec Corporation Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) and ProxySG Version: ASG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.5 prior to 6.5.10.6, ProxySG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.7 prior to 6.7.1.2
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