PT-2008-6601 · Secure Computing · Secure Web Gateway

Xhakerman2006 · Published 2008-12-12 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5540

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Secure Computing Secure Web Gateway (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML document. This can be achieved by placing an MZ header at the beginning of the document and modifying the filename to have either no extension, a .txt extension, or a .jpg extension.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5540

Affected Products

Secure Web Gateway

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5540 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499043/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4723 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/498995/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47435 · Note