THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-10258
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2016-10258

Advanced Secure Gateway vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
4.9%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) and ProxySG management consoles. A malicious appliance administrator can upload arbitrary malicious files to the management console and trick another administrator user into downloading and executing malicious code.
Affected vendor
Broadcom
Affected product
Advanced Secure Gateway
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-434 — Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
Published
2018-04-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-10258

  • Confirm whether Broadcom Advanced Secure Gateway is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-10258.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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