McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance and Email Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities

BID:52487

Info

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance and Email Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 52487
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 14 2012 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 14 2012 12:00AM
Credit: Ben Williams of NGS Secure
Vulnerable: McAfee Email Gateway 6.7.1
McAfee Email Gateway 7.0
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance 5.1 Patch 4
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance 5.1
Not Vulnerable: McAfee Email Gateway 7.0 Patch 1
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance 5.6 Patch 3
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance 5.5 Patch 6

Discussion

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance and Email Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance and Email Gateway are prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability, multiple information-disclosure vulnerabilities, a directory-traversal vulnerability, a security-bypass vulnerability, and an insecure-encryption vulnerability.

A remote attacker could leverage the cross-site scripting issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Exploiting the information-disclosure issues allow the attacker to view local files within the context of the Web server process.

Exploiting the security-bypass vulnerability allows attackers to bypass security restrictions and obtain sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions.

Exploiting the directory-traversal issue allows attackers to use directory-traversal strings to retrieve arbitrary files in the context of the affected application.

Exploiting the insecure-encryption issue allows attackers to determine encryption keys, which may lead to further attacks.

Exploit / POC

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance and Email Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities

Currently, we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Solution / Fix

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance and Email Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released an update. Please see the references for details.

References

McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance and Email Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities

References:
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