CVE-2012-0299

critical

Published 2012-05-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

The file-management scripts in the management GUI in Symantec Web Gateway 5.0.x before 5.0.3 allow remote attackers to upload arbitrary code to a designated pathname, and possibly execute this code, via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-19038 webapps php verified

Metasploit · 2012-06-10

Symantec Web Gateway 5.0.2.8 - Arbitrary '.PHP' File Upload (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/http/symantec_web_gateway_file_upload rank 600

Symantec Web Gateway 5.0.2.8 Arbitrary PHP File Upload Vulnerability

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
symantec	web_gateway	`5.0`
symantec	web_gateway	`5.0.1`
symantec	web_gateway	`5.0.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.