Check Point Advisories

Symantec Web Gateway OS Command Injection (CVE-2014-7285; CVE-2016-5313)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2015-0387
Date Published: 25 Mar 2015
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Sunday 03 December, 2017
Source: Symantec
Industry Reference:CVE-2014-7285
CVE-2016-5313
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? Symantec Web Gateway prior to 5.2.2
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.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

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 OS 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 OS Command Injection

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