CVE-2020-12594 — Improper Privilege Management in Symantec Messaging Gateway

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.2HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.56%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Broadcom Symantec Messaging Gateway
Timeline
PublishedDec 10
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A privilege escalation flaw allows a malicious, authenticated, privileged CLI user to escalate their privileges on the system and gain full control over the SMG appliance. This affects SMG prior to 10.7.4.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.2 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages1 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-6w26-5ccg-87xc: A privilege escalation flaw allows a malicious, authenticated, privileged CLI user to escalate their privileges on the system and gain full control ov↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-12594: A privilege escalation flaw allows a malicious, authenticated, privileged CLI user to escalate their privileges on the system and gain full control ov↗2020-12-10
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