VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8024

critical
Published 2015-12-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), Enterprise Security Manager/Log Manager (ESMLM), and Enterprise Security Manager/Receiver (ESMREC) 9.3.x before 9.3.2MR19, 9.4.x before 9.4.2MR9, and 9.5.x before 9.5.0MR8, when configured to use Active Directory or LDAP authentication sources, allow remote attackers to bypass authentication by logging in with the username "NGCP|NGCP|NGCP;" and any password.

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
mcafeemcafee_enterprise_security_manager9.3.0
mcafeemcafee_enterprise_security_manager9.3.1
mcafeemcafee_enterprise_security_manager9.3.2
mcafeemcafee_enterprise_security_manager9.4.0
mcafeemcafee_enterprise_security_manager9.4.1
mcafeemcafee_enterprise_security_manager9.4.2
mcafeemcafee_enterprise_security_manager9.5.0

References

CWEs

CWE-78

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

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