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McAfee Application Control and Change Control 5.1.x and 6.0.0 do not enforce an intended password requirement in certain situations involving attributes of the password file, which allows local users to bypass authentication by executing a command

Published Aug 22, 2012

Description

McAfee Application Control and Change Control 5.1.x and 6.0.0 do not enforce an intended password requirement in certain situations involving attributes of the password file, which allows local users to bypass authentication by executing a command.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (1)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 22, 2012
Updated Sep 17, 2024
Reserved Aug 22, 2012
Link CVE-2012-4593
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2012-4593
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2012-4593