VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8005

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Published 2017-03-14 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

File extension filtering vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) before 7.6.404h1128596 allows attackers to fail to identify the file name properly via scanning an email with a forged attached filename that uses a null byte within the filename extension.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
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=SB10161

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mcafeeemail_gateway{"endIncluding":"7.6.401"}

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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