CVE-2016-6597 (GCVE-0-2016-6597)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-08-10 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:36
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Summary
Sophos EAS Proxy before 6.2.0 for Sophos Mobile Control, when Lotus Traveler is enabled, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary web-resources from the backend mail system via a request for the resource, aka an Open Reverse Proxy vulnerability.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-08-05 00:00
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