CVE-2012-2977

medium

Published 2012-07-23 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

The management console in Symantec Web Gateway 5.0.x before 5.0.3.18 allows remote attackers to change arbitrary passwords via crafted input to an application script.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-20707 webapps linux verified

Kc57 · 2012-08-21

Symantec Web Gateway 5.0.3.18 - Arbitrary Password Change

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-20706 webapps linux verified

Kc57 · 2012-08-21

Symantec Web Gateway 5.0.3.18 - Arbitrary Password Change (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
symantec	web_gateway	`5.0`
symantec	web_gateway	`5.0.1`
symantec	web_gateway	`5.0.2`
symantec	web_gateway	`5.0.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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