cve-2020-12594
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-10 05:21
Modified
2024-08-04 12:04
Severity ?
Summary
A privilege escalation flaw allows a malicious, authenticated, privileged CLI user to escalate their privileges on the system and gain full control over the SMG appliance. This affects SMG prior to 10.7.4.
References
secure@symantec.comhttps://support.broadcom.com/security-advisory/content/security-advisories/Privilege-Escalation-and-Information-Disclosure-Vulnerabilities-in-SMG/SYMSA16609Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.broadcom.com/security-advisory/content/security-advisories/Privilege-Escalation-and-Information-Disclosure-Vulnerabilities-in-SMG/SYMSA16609Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) Version: SMG prior to 10.7.4
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