CVE-2016-8020

Virusscan Enterprise vulnerability

CVSS

8.0

EPSS

11.1%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Improper control of generation of code vulnerability in Intel Security VirusScan Enterprise Linux (VSEL) 2.0.3 (and earlier) allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTTP request parameter.

Affected vendor

Mcafee

Affected product

Virusscan Enterprise

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

Published

2017-03-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-8020.
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