CVE-2012-3579 describes a critical vulnerability in Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) versions prior to 10.0, where an unspecified account has a default password, allowing remote attackers to gain privileged SSH access. With a CVSS score of 7.9, this vulnerability is highly severe due to its network-adjacent attack vector, medium attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via Metasploit and ExploitDB, indicating a high potential for exploitation, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.