CVE-2012-5879

high

Published 2013-03-28 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.2

Description

An ActiveX control in McHealthCheck.dll in McAfee Virtual Technician (MVT) and ePO-MVT 6.5.0.2101 and earlier allows remote attackers to modify or create arbitrary files via a full pathname argument to the Save method.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-24907 remote windows

High-Tech Bridge SA · 2013-03-29

McAfee Virtual Technician (MVT) 6.5.0.2101 - Insecure ActiveX Method

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mcafee	mcafee_virtual_technician	`{"endIncluding":"6.5.0.2101"}`
mcafee	mcafee_virtual_technician	`6.3.0.1911`
mcafee	epo_mcafee_virtual_technician	`{"endIncluding":"6.5.0.2101"}`
mcafee	epo_mcafee_virtual_technician	`1.0`
mcafee	epo_mcafee_virtual_technician	`1.0.4.0`
mcafee	epo_mcafee_virtual_technician	`1.0.7`
mcafee	epo_mcafee_virtual_technician	`1.0.8`
mcafee	epo_mcafee_virtual_technician	`1.0.9`

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.