CVE-2016-9092 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting Symantec Content Analysis (CA) versions 1.3 and 2.x prior to 2.2.1.1, and Mail Threat Defense (MTD) version 1.1 management consoles. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) allows a remote attacker, through social engineering, to execute arbitrary actions with the privileges of an authenticated administrator. While the attack complexity is low, successful exploitation could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:content_analysis:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:content_analysis:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:mail_threat_defense:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.