CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-12243

8.8 HIGH Published 2018-09-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-09-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-611

Description

The Symantec Messaging Gateway product prior to 10.6.6 may be susceptible to a XML external entity (XXE) exploit, which is a type of issue where XML input containing a reference to an external entity is processed by a weakly configured XML parser. The attack uses file URI schemes or relative paths in the system identifier to access files that should not normally be accessible.

Affected configurations

• symantec messaging gateway (< 10.6.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References