CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
97.2%
Symantec Web Gateway is prone to a OS command injection vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:symantec:web_gateway";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106342");
script_version("2023-07-21T05:05:22+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-21 05:05:22 +0000 (Fri, 21 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-10-07 10:41:48 +0700 (Fri, 07 Oct 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-04-20 13:31:00 +0000 (Thu, 20 Apr 2017)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-5313");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Symantec Web Gateway OS Command Injection Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_symantec_web_gateway_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("symantec_web_gateway/installed");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Symantec Web Gateway is prone to a OS command injection vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The vulnerable code is located in the /spywall/new_whitelist.php script.
The vulnerability exists because the validation checks may be bypassed by setting the 'sid' POST parameter to a
value different from zero. In this way, even though the 'white_ip' POST parameter is not a valid domain or IP
address, it will be passed to the add_whitelist() function as its $url parameter.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An authenticated attacker may execute arbitrary OS commands with the
privileges of the root user of the appliance.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Symantec Web Gateway version 5.2.2 and prior.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 5.2.5 or later.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
exit(0);
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "5.2.5")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "5.2.5");
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
97.2%