Overview
McAfee Managed Agent versions 4.5, 4.6, and possibly earlier versions contain a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability (CWE-400).
Description
CWE-400:Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') McAfee Managed Agent versions 4.5 and 4.6 contain a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability. McAfee Managed Agent runs a service on Windows workstations called "McAfee Framework Service" (FrameworkService.exe) which runs an HTTP server on the default TCP port 8081. |
Impact
An unauthenticated remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service against the McAfee Managed Agent software. |
Solution
McAfee has released a security bulletin with the details on obtaining the security hotfix for Managed Agent 4.5 Patch 3 and Managed Agent 4.6 Patch 3. McAfee Managed Agent versions 4.8 RTW and later are not affected. If applying the security hotfix is not possible, please consider the following workaround. |
Accept connections only from the ePO server |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | 5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Temporal | 3.9 | E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C |
| Environmental | 2.9 | CDP:ND/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Rodney Beede for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Adam Rauf.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2013-3627 |
| Date Public: | 2013-10-01 |
| Date First Published: | 2013-10-04 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2013-10-04 12:36 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 16 |