CVE-2016-9092

high
Published 2017-05-11 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

The Symantec Content Analysis (CA) 1.3, 2.x prior to 2.2.1.1, and Mail Threat Defense (MTD) 1.1 management consoles are susceptible to a cross-site request forging (CSRF) vulnerability. A remote attacker can use phishing or other social engineering techniques to access the management console with the privileges of an authenticated administrator user.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secure@symantec.com — https://www.symantec.com/security-center/network-protection-security-advisories/SA149

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
symanteccontent_analysis1.3
symanteccontent_analysis2.1
symantecmail_threat_defense1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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