McAfee Managed Agent FrameworkService.exe Denial of Service (SB10055) (credentialed check)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70398

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Synopsis

The remote host has a service installed that is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

According to the version of the McAfee Agent installed on the remote host, it is affected by a denial of service vulnerability that can be triggered by a specially crafted HTTP request. Successful exploitation will cause the FrameworkService.exe service to crash.

Note: This plugin does not check for the presence of any mitigations, such as setting the policy to limit connections only from the ePO server.

Solution

Apply the correct patches according to the vendor's advisory.

As a workaround, it is possible to partially mitigate the vulnerability by adjusting the Agent policy to only allow connections from the ePO server.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70398

File Name: mcafee_cma_4_8_0_creds.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 10/11/2013

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:common_management_agent

Required KB Items: installed_sw/McAfee Agent

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-3627

BID: 62785

CERT: 613886

MCAFEE-SB: SB10055

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