VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8989

high
Published 2017-03-14 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Unsalted password vulnerability in the Enterprise Manager (web portal) component in Intel Security McAfee Vulnerability Manager (MVM) 7.5.8 and earlier allows attackers to more easily decrypt user passwords via brute force attacks against the database.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secure@intel.com — https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10117

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mcafeevulnerability_manager{"endIncluding":"7.5.8"}

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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