CVE-2015-0922

medium

Published 2015-01-09 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) before 4.6.9 and 5.x before 5.1.2 uses the same secret key across different customers' installations, which allows attackers to obtain the administrator password by leveraging knowledge of the encrypted password.

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.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_gather/mcafee_epo_xxe rank 300

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Authenticated XXE Credentials Exposure

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mcafee	epolicy_orchestrator	`{"endIncluding":"4.6.8"}`
mcafee	epolicy_orchestrator	`5.0.0`
mcafee	epolicy_orchestrator	`5.0.1`
mcafee	epolicy_orchestrator	`5.1.0`
mcafee	epolicy_orchestrator	`5.1.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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