CVE-2013-1616
The management console on the Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) appliance before 5.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by…
- 8.3HighCVSS base score
- 10.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The management console on the Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) appliance before 5.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by injecting a command into an application script.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Symantec Web Gateway 5.1.0.x - Multiple Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 27136webapps, phppublished 27 Jul 2013Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By symantec
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High8.3 | AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.7% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 61106 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=&suid=20130725_00 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20130726-0_Symantec_Web_Gateway_Multiple_Vulnerabilities_v10.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/122556/Symantec-Web-Gateway-XSS-CSRF-SQL-Injection-Command-Injection.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-1651 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2013-1616)Record last updated .