VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-2859

medium
Published 2015-06-23 · 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
5.8

Description

Intel McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 4.x through 4.6.9 and 5.x through 5.1.2 does not validate server names and Certification Authority names in X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.0
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.5.0
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.5.3
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.5.4
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.5.5
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.5.6
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.5.7
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.0
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.1
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.2
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.3
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.4
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.5
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.6
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.7
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.8
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator4.6.9
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator5.0.0
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator5.0.1
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator5.1.0
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator5.1.1
mcafeeepolicy_orchestrator5.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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

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