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CVE-2012-4593· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

McAfee Application Control and Change Control 5.1.x and 6.0.0 do not enforce an intended password requirement in certain situations involvin

McAfee Application Control and Change Control 5.1.x and 6.0.0 do not enforce an intended password requirement in certain situations involving attributes of the password file, which allows local users to bypass authentication by executing a command.

MediumCVSS 5.0 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Aug 22, 2012
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.0% · 61th percentile
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Action score

20

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
20 / 40 · 5.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.0%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
mcafeeapplication control
mcafeechange control

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • mcafee application control5.1.0
  • mcafee application control5.1.1
  • mcafee application control5.1.2
  • mcafee application control6.0.0
  • mcafee change control5.1.0
  • mcafee change control5.1.1
  • mcafee change control5.1.2
  • mcafee change control6.0.0

Same product

mcafee: all records

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  • CVE-2016-1715The swin.sys kernel driver in McAfee Application Control (MAC) 6.1.0 before build 706, 6.1.1 before build 404, 6.1.2 before build 449, 6.1.3
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  • CVE-2014-9920Unauthorized execution of binary vulnerability in McAfee (now Intel Security) McAfee Application Control (MAC) 6.0.0 before hotfix 9726, 6.0
    23Monitor
  • CVE-2013-7461A write protection and execution bypass vulnerability in McAfee (now Intel Security) Change Control (MCC) 6.1.0 for Linux and earlier allows
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  • CVE-2013-7460A write protection and execution bypass vulnerability in McAfee (now Intel Security) Application Control (MAC) 6.1.0 for Linux and earlier a
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Remediation

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Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
P · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
P
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-264 · Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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