CVE-2021-23896

medium

Description

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information vulnerability in the administrator interface of McAfee Database Security (DBSec) prior to 4.8.2 allows an administrator to view the unencrypted password of the McAfee Insights Server used to pass data to the Insights Server. This user is restricted to only have access to DBSec data in the Insights Server.

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10359

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-06-02

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.7

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00044