McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) - OS Command Injection vulnerability

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
• mcafee epolicy orchestrator5.1.1
• mcafee epolicy orchestrator5.1.2
• mcafee epolicy orchestrator5.1.3
• mcafee epolicy orchestrator5.3.1
• mcafee epolicy orchestrator5.3.2
• mcafee epolicy orchestrator5.9.0

Versions reported by the vendor

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

• McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO)

  • 5.1 and later · before 5.3.3affected
  • 5.3 and later · before 5.3.3affected
  • 5.9 and later · before 5.9.1affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2006-5156Buffer overflow in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator before 3.5.0.720 and ProtectionPilot before 1.1.1.126 allows remote attackers to execute arbi
  62This week
• CVE-2002-0690Format string vulnerability in McAfee Security ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 2.5.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTT
  43Plan
• CVE-2016-8027SQL injection vulnerability in core services in Intel Security McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.3.2 and earlier and 5.1.3 and earlier all
  42Plan
• CVE-2007-1498Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the SiteManager.SiteMgr.1 ActiveX control (SiteManager.dll) in the ePO management console in McAfee
  39Monitor
• CVE-2019-3604ePolicy Orchestrator Cloud update fixes multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities
  35Monitor
• CVE-2015-8765Intel McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 4.6.9 and earlier, 5.0.x, 5.1.x before 5.1.3 Hotfix 1106041, and 5.3.x before 5.3.1 Hotfix 1106041 a
  34Monitor

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

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

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

1const host = req.body.host;2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

1const host = req.body.host;2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

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