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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2013.0115
A privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in
McAfee Email Gateway
18 October 2013
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: McAfee Email Gateway
Operating System: Network Appliance
Impact/Access: Increased Privileges -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
Member content until: Sunday, November 17 2013
OVERVIEW
A vulnerability has been identified in McAfee Email Gateway Appliance
prior to 7.6
IMPACT
The vendor has provided the following details regarding this issue:
"By providing specific data to the graphical user interface, the
software can be made to execute data passed directly to it as code.
This can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands which
could lead to root level super-user access.
This vulnerability requires a valid session ID to perform this
attack." [1]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends updating to the latest version of McAfee Email
Gateway to correct this vulnerability. [1]
REFERENCES
[1] McAfee Security Bulletin – Email Gateway privilege escalation issue
patched
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10057
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