Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway/ProxySG up to 6.6/6.7.2.0 Credentials credentials management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway and ProxySG up to 6.6/6.7.2.0. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to credentials management (Credentials). This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2016-9100. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway and ProxySG up to 6.6/6.7.2.0 (Firewall Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a credentials management vulnerability (Credentials). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-255. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.13, ASG 6.7 prior to 6.7.3.1, ProxySG 6.5 prior to 6.5.10.6, ProxySG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.13, and ProxySG 6.7 prior to 6.7.3.1 are susceptible to an information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker with local access to the client host of an authenticated administrator user can, under certain circumstances, obtain sensitive authentication credential information.

The bug was discovered 01/09/2018. The weakness was released 05/11/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at symantec.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-9100 since 10/28/2016. An attack has to be approached locally. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1552 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 105779 (Symantec ProxySG 6.5 < 6.5.10.6 / 6.6 < 6.6.5.13 / 6.7 < 6.7.3.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SA155)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Firewalls and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 6.7.2.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 9 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (105779) and SecurityFocus (BID 102454†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-111534, VDB-111535 and VDB-111940. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
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Exploitinginfo

Name: Credentials
Class: Credentials management / Credentials
CWE: CWE-255
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 105779
Nessus Name: Symantec ProxySG 6.5 < 6.5.10.6 / 6.6 < 6.6.5.13 / 6.7 < 6.7.3.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SA155)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Advanced Secure Gateway/ProxySG 6.7.2.1

Timelineinfo

10/28/2016 🔍
05/11/2017 +194 days 🔍
05/11/2017 +0 days 🔍
01/09/2018 +243 days 🔍
01/09/2018 +0 days 🔍
01/09/2018 +0 days 🔍
01/12/2018 +3 days 🔍
01/18/2018 +6 days 🔍
01/30/2021 +1108 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: symantec.com
Researcher: Jakub Palaczynski, Pawel Bartunek.
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2016-9100 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-9100
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-111941
SecurityFocus: 102454 - Symantec ProxySG and ASG CVE-2016-9100 Information Disclosure Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1040138

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/18/2018 08:04
Updated: 01/30/2021 09:17
Changes: 01/18/2018 08:04 (70), 12/23/2019 20:32 (5), 01/30/2021 09:12 (3), 01/30/2021 09:17 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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