McAfee Common Management Agent Traversal Arbitrary File Write

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22046

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Synopsis

A security management service running on the remote host is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability.

Description

According to its banner, the McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) running on the remote host is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability in the Framework Service component due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request, to write arbitrary files outside of the web path.

Solution

Upgrade to McAfee Common Management Agent version 3.5.5 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22046

File Name: mcafee_cma_dir_traversal.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 7/14/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:common_management_agent, cpe:/a:mcafee:epolicy_orchestrator

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3623

BID: 18979

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