Security Vendors: Do No Harm, Heal Thyself
Summary: Symantec released security updates for serious vulnerabilities in its Symantec Web Gateway security appliances more than five months after SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab notified the company, and SEC Consult said attackers could chain the flaws to compromise the appliances and intercept HTTP and plain-text HTTPS traffic including passwords and session cookies. The article contrasts this with McAfee, which issued an advisory for ePolicy Orchestrator vulnerabilities in less than a week, and notes Google's security team backs a seven-day disclosure deadline for critical vulnerabilities under active exploitation.
Bottom line: The appliance meant to filter web-borne malware sat unpatched for over five months while, per SEC Consult, all web traffic passed through it and credentials for systems like Active Directory and LDAP were exposed - a reminder that the security box in the traffic path is itself attack surface.
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