CVE-2012-0308

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) before 10.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators.

CVSS

Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Base score: 6.8

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.92%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 79
Score date: 10/5/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Symantec — Messaging Gateway

CWEs

CWE-352

References

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