CVE-2018-12243 (GCVE-0-2018-12243)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-19 15:00
Modified
2024-09-16 20:21
Severity ?
CWE
  • XXE
Summary
The Symantec Messaging Gateway product prior to 10.6.6 may be susceptible to a XML external entity (XXE) exploit, which is a type of issue where XML input containing a reference to an external entity is processed by a weakly configured XML parser. The attack uses file URI schemes or relative paths in the system identifier to access files that should not normally be accessible.
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