CVE-2012-4347

medium

Published 2012-12-05 · 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

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the management console in Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) 9.5.x allow remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) logFile parameter in a logs action to brightmail/export or (2) localBackupFileSelection parameter in an APPLIANCE restoreSource action to brightmail/admin/restore/download.do.

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-23110 webapps linux

Ben Williams · 2012-12-03

Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5.3-3 - Arbitrary File Download

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/symantec_brightmail_logfile rank 300

Symantec Messaging Gateway 9.5 Log File Download Vulnerability

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
symantec	messaging_gateway	`9.5`
symantec	messaging_gateway	`9.5.1`
symantec	messaging_gateway	`9.5.2`
symantec	messaging_gateway	`9.5.3`
symantec	messaging_gateway	`9.5.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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

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