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CVE-2012-0308

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0308 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) versions prior to 10.0, allowing remote attackers to hijack administrator authentication. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring medium attack complexity but potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB (EDB-23109). Despite the existence of public exploit code, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and community discussion and media coverage remain minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 9.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:messaging_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:messaging_gateway:9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:messaging_gateway:9.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:messaging_gateway:9.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:messaging_gateway:9.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23109 · Dec 3, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0192 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityfocus.com / bid/55137
symantec.com / security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp
Vendor Advisory