SQL injection vulnerability in core services in Intel Security McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.3.2 and earlier and 5.1.3 and earlier all

Affected versions

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

• mcafee epolicy orchestrator5.1.0 and later · up to 5.1.3 inclusive
• mcafee epolicy orchestrator5.3.0 and later · up to 5.3.2 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (intel). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• n/a McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.3.2 and earlier and 5.1.3 and earlier

  • McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.3.2 and earlier and 5.1.3 and earlieraffected

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• CVE-2019-3604ePolicy Orchestrator Cloud update fixes multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The query text is built by concatenating user input. The database cannot tell where the data ends and the command begins.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const owner = req.query.owner;2const rows = await db.query(3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = '" + owner + "'"4);

1const owner = req.query.owner;2const rows = await db.query(3  "SELECT * FROM files WHERE owner = $1",4  [owner]5);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.