MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2018-6671

Epolicy Orchestrator vulnerability

CVSS
4.7
EPSS
4.7%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Application Protection Bypass vulnerability in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.3.0 through 5.3.3 and 5.9.0 through 5.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass localhost only access security protection for some ePO features via a specially crafted HTTP request.
Affected vendor
Mcafee
Affected product
Epolicy Orchestrator
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Published
2018-06-15

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-6671

  • Confirm whether Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-6671.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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