CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4593
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
McAfee Application Control and Change Control 5.1.x and 6.0.0 do not enforce an intended password requirement in certain situations involving attributes of the password file, which allows local users to bypass authentication by executing a command.
Affected configurations
• mcafee application control 5.1.0
• mcafee application control 5.1.1
• mcafee application control 5.1.2
• mcafee application control 6.0.0
• mcafee change control 5.1.0
• mcafee change control 5.1.1
• mcafee change control 5.1.2
• mcafee change control 6.0.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10023 Vendor Advisory
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10023 Vendor Advisory