CVE-2016-9100 describes an information disclosure vulnerability affecting Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) and ProxySG appliances across multiple versions. An attacker with local access to an authenticated administrator's client host could potentially obtain sensitive authentication credentials. This vulnerability is rated as High severity (CVSS 7.8), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, but leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), nor is it listed on the KEV catalog, and it has received no significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 6.6, < 6.6.5.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:advanced_secure_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.7, < 6.7.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:advanced_secure_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.5, < 6.5.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:symantec_proxysg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.6, < 6.6.5.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:symantec_proxysg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.7, < 6.7.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:symantec_proxysg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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