CVE-2009-5115

medium
Published 2012-08-22 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) 3.5.5 through 3.5.5.588 and 3.6.0 through 3.6.0.608, and McAfee Agent 4.0 before Patch 3, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files by accessing a report-writing ActiveX control COM object.

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
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.5.5.438
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.5.5.568
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.5.5.577
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.5.5.580
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.5.5.588
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.6.0.438
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.6.0.453
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.6.0.546
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.6.0.569
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.6.0.574
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.6.0.595
mcafeecommon_management_agent3.6.0.603

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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