Authorization Flaw in Symantec Management Consoles
CVE-2016-9097
7.2HIGH
What is CVE-2016-9097?
The vulnerability affects the management consoles of Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway and ProxySG products, wherein under specific circumstances, it fails to correctly authorize administrator users. This flaw allows a malicious administrator with read-only access to exploit the system and gain unauthorized access to functionalities typically reserved for users with write access privileges, potentially compromising system integrity and security.
Affected Version(s)
Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) and ProxySG ASG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.5 prior to 6.5.10.6, ProxySG 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.8, ProxySG 6.7 prior to 6.7.1.2