CVE-2012-0303 — Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Brightmail Control Center in Symantec Message Filter 6.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that (1) execute application commands or (2) create admin accounts

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Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Brightmail Control Center in Symantec Message Filter 6.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that (1) execute application commands or (2) create admin accounts

Published Jul 5, 2012

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.86%

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Brightmail Control Center in Symantec Message Filter 6.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that (1) execute application commands or (2) create admin accounts.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.86% 0.00862

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00862

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.86% (0.00862)	57.04th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.86% (0.00862)	53.63th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.14% (0.00144)	32.03th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.16% (0.00156)	53.35th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.12% (0.00116)	44.36th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.10% (0.00100)	39.93th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 26, 2023	0.16% (0.00156)	50.73th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.16% (0.00161)	50.88th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54133
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120626_00
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54133		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120626_00		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 5, 2012

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Jan 4, 2012

Link CVE-2012-0303

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-0303

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2012-0303