CVE-2013-1616

high
Published 2013-08-01 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

The management console on the Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) appliance before 5.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by injecting a command into an application script.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-27136 webapps php verified
SEC Consult ยท 2013-07-27

Symantec Web Gateway 5.1.0.x - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
symantecweb_gateway{"endIncluding":"5.1"}
symantecweb_gateway5.0
symantecweb_gateway5.0.1
symantecweb_gateway5.0.2
symantecweb_gateway5.0.3
symantecweb_gateway5.0.3.18

References

CWEs

CWE-78

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

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