Check Point Advisories

Symantec Web Gateway pbcontrol.php Command Injection (CVE-2012-2953)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2012-653
Date Published: 21 Oct 2012
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 03 November, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2012-2953
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A remote command execution vulnerability has been reported in Symantec Web Gateway. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by sending a malicious HTTP request containing a specially crafted parameter to the target server. Successful exploitation would result in execution of arbitrary commands in the security context of the affected server.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of specially crafted HTTP requests.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Symantec Web Gateway pbcontrol.php Command Injection protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Symantec Web Gateway pbcontrol.php Command Injection

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