CVE-2018-5241

Summary

Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) 6.6 and 6.7, and ProxySG 6.5, 6.6, and 6.7 are susceptible to a SAML authentication bypass vulnerability. The products can be configured with a SAML authentication realm to authenticate network users in intercepted proxy traffic. When parsing SAML responses, ASG and ProxySG incorrectly handle XML nodes with comments. A remote attacker can modify a valid SAML response without invalidating its cryptographic signature. This may allow the attacker to bypass user authentication security controls in ASG and ProxySG. This vulnerability only affects authentication of network users in intercepted traffic. It does not affect administrator user authentication for the ASG and ProxySG management consoles.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Symantec CorporationAdvanced Secure Gateway (ASG)6.6affected
Symantec CorporationAdvanced Secure Gateway (ASG)6.7affected
Symantec CorporationProxySG6.5affected
Symantec CorporationProxySG6.6affected
Symantec CorporationProxySG6.7affected

Weaknesses

  • Authentication bypass

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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