CVE-2021-23890 McAfee ePO Information Leak vulnerability

What is CVE-2021-23890?

CVE-2021-23890 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator, published on 26 Mar 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Information leak vulnerability in the Agent Handler of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) prior to 5.10 Update 10 allows an unauthenticated user to download McAfee product packages (specifically McAfee Agent) available in ePO repository and install them on their own machines to have it managed and then in turn get policy details from the ePO server. This can only happen when the ePO Agent Handler is installed in a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to service machines not connected to the network through a VPN.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-23890?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator.

How do I fix CVE-2021-23890?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-23890 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-23890 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-23890 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator

• CVE-2016-8027 SQL injection in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.3.2 and earlier and 5.1.3 and earlier Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-5156 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2002-0690 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2007-1498 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2015-8765 Deserialization in n/a High 8.3

All Mcafee Epolicy Orchestrator vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-6gh5-794v-v6mc.