CVE-2016-5312 in Messaging Gateway

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 06/06/2016
• Disclosure: 04/14/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-92238 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-22 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 6.5
• EPSS: 0.40029
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5312
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5312
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-5312/