CVE-2012-5879

Mcafee Virtual Technician vulnerability

CVSS

8.2

EPSS

5.2%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

An ActiveX control in McHealthCheck.dll in McAfee Virtual Technician (MVT) and ePO-MVT 6.5.0.2101 and earlier allows remote attackers to modify or create arbitrary files via a full pathname argument to the Save method.

Affected vendor

Mcafee

Affected product

Mcafee Virtual Technician

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2013-03-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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