CVE-2020-12594 — A privilege escalation flaw allows a malicious, authenticated, privileged CLI us

A privilege escalation flaw allows a malicious, authenticated, privileged CLI user to escalate their privileges on the system and gain full control over the SMG appliance. This affects SMG prior to 10.7.4.

01What is this vulnerability?

A privilege escalation flaw allows a malicious, authenticated, privileged CLI user to escalate their privileges on the system and gain full control over the SMG appliance. This affects SMG prior to 10.7.4.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG)	SMG prior to 10.7.4

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-12-10T05:21:46.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T12:04:21.623Z

09References

• support.broadcom.com — https://support.broadcom.com/security-advisory/content/security-advisories/Privi…