CVE-2016-5313 is a critical vulnerability affecting Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) versions prior to 5.2.5, allowing remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary operating system commands. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this flaw presents a significant risk, as it can be exploited over a network with low attack complexity and user privileges, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity and potential for complete system compromise, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in common frameworks like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:web_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.