CVE-2012-2957

high
Published 2012-07-23 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.2

Description

The management console in Symantec Web Gateway 5.0.x before 5.0.3.18 allows local users to gain privileges by modifying files, related to a "file inclusion" issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
symantecweb_gateway5.0
symantecweb_gateway5.0.1
symantecweb_gateway5.0.2
symantecweb_gateway5.0.3

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.