CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-12753 — Symantec Reporter security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 4.9

An information disclosure vulnerability in Symantec Reporter web UI 10.3 prior to 10.3.2.5 allows a malicious authenticated administrator user to obtain passwords for external SMTP, FTP, FTPS, LDAP, and Cloud Log Download servers that they might not otherwise be authorized to access. The malicious administrator user can also obtain the passwords of other Reporter web UI users.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.9 (3.0)
Published
2019-08-30
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application

Affected products

  • symantec / reporter

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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