CVE-2012-4593

medium

Published 2012-08-22 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mcafee	application_control	`5.1.0`
mcafee	application_control	`5.1.1`
mcafee	application_control	`5.1.2`
mcafee	application_control	`6.0.0`
mcafee	change_control	`5.1.0`
mcafee	change_control	`5.1.1`
mcafee	change_control	`5.1.2`
mcafee	change_control	`6.0.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.