CVE-2013-7460

medium

Published 2017-03-14 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A write protection and execution bypass vulnerability in McAfee (now Intel Security) Application Control (MAC) 6.1.0 for Linux and earlier allows authenticated users to change binaries that are part of the Application Control whitelist and allows execution of binaries via specific conditions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mcafee	application_control	`{"endIncluding":"6.1.0"}`
mcafee	change_control	`{"endIncluding":"6.1.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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

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