CVE-2016-9097

high
Published 2017-05-11 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

The Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.5 prior 6.5.10.6, ProxySG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, and ProxySG 6.7 prior to 6.7.1.2 management consoles do not, under certain circumstances, correctly authorize administrator users. A malicious administrator with read-only access can exploit this vulnerability to access management console functionality that requires read-write access privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
81%
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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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware broadcomadvanced_secure_gateway6.6
vmware broadcomadvanced_secure_gateway6.6.3
vmware broadcomadvanced_secure_gateway6.6.4
vmware broadcomadvanced_secure_gateway6.6.4.3
vmware broadcomadvanced_secure_gateway6.6.5.1
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.1
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.2
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.2.10
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.4.1
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.5.7
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.6.1
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.7.6
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.9.2
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.9.8
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.9.10
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.5.9.14
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6.2
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6.2.1
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6.2.2
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6.3
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6.3.2
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6.4
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6.4.1
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6.4.3
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.6.5
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.7
vmware broadcomsymantec_proxysg6.7.1.1

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.