CVE-2016-5312

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 54.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the charting component in Symantec Messaging Gateway before 10.6.2 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the sn parameter to brightmail/servlet/com.ve.kavachart.servlet.ChartStream.

Affected products

Symantec Messaging Gateway: through 10.6.1

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138891/Symantec-Messaging-Gateway-10.6.1-Directory-Traversal.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Sep/71
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93148
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036908
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20160927_00
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40437/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138891/Symantec-Messaging-Gateway-10.6.1-Directory-Traversal.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Sep/71
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93148
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036908
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20160927_00
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40437/

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