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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-4221 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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: symantec

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Updated: 2024-09-16T20:21:44.540Z

Reserved: 2018-06-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-12243

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-19T15:29:19.217

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:44:50.910

Link: CVE-2018-12243

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