CVE-2017-6325 Code injection in Messaging Gateway

What is CVE-2017-6325?

CVE-2017-6325 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Symantec Corporation Messaging Gateway, published on 26 Jun 2017. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Symantec Messaging Gateway can encounter a file inclusion vulnerability, which is a type of vulnerability that is most commonly found to affect web applications that rely on a scripting run time. This issue is caused when an application builds a path to executable code using an attacker-controlled variable in a way that allows the attacker to control which file is executed at run time. This file inclusion vulnerability subverts how an application loads code for execution. Successful exploitation of a file inclusion vulnerability will result in remote code execution on the web server that runs the affected web application.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6325?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Symantec Messaging Gateway.

How do I fix CVE-2017-6325?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6325 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2017-6325 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6325 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Corporation Messaging Gateway

• CVE-2017-6326 Code injection in Messaging Gateway Critical 10.0
• CVE-2018-12242 Auth bypass in Symantec Messaging Gateway Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-12243 XML external entity in Symantec Messaging Gateway High 8.8
• CVE-2016-2204 Command injection in n/a High 8.2
• CVE-2012-3579 Hardcoded credentials in n/a High 7.9

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5p9r-p6jh-jxvh.