CVE-2013-4672 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) appliance, affecting versions prior to 5.1.1. An incorrectly configured sudoers file allowed authenticated local users to bypass access restrictions and execute arbitrary commands. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered high severity, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability once an attacker has local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit tools like Metasploit or Nuclei modules, and it has received negligible community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:5.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.