CVE-2016-5312

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Published 2017-04-14 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the charting component in Symantec Messaging Gateway before 10.6.2 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the sn parameter to brightmail/servlet/com.ve.kavachart.servlet.ChartStream.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secure@symantec.com — http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20160927_00

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
symantecmessaging_gateway{"endIncluding":"10.6.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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