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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator HTTP POST Request Handling Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA11471  
Release Date: 2004-04-23
Last Update: 2004-05-11

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.x
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.x

CVE reference:CVE-2004-0038 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
ISS X-Force has discovered a vulnerability in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the spipe/file handler when processing HTTP POST requests. This can be exploited to create files with arbitrary content on a vulnerable server via a specially crafted POST request and push it out to clients.

Successful exploitation may grant Administrator access to a vulnerable server and potentially also allow access to agent system.

Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, scan using the Network Software Inspector.

Solution:
Apply patches.

Patch 4 for version 3.0 Service Pack 2a:
http://download.nai.com/products/patches/ePO/v3.0/EPO3024.ZIP

Patch 14 for version 2.5.1:
http://download.nai.com/products/patches/ePO/v2.x/EPO25114.zip

Provided and/or discovered by:
Ben Layer, ISS X-Force.

Changelog:
2004-05-11: Added more detailed information from ISS X-Force.

Original Advisory:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/173



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10 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. McAfee Common Management Agent Framework Service Denial of Service
2. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Framework Service Format String Vulnerability
3. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Common Management Agent Vulnerabilities
4. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot ActiveX Control Buffer Overflows
5. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Source Header Buffer Overflow
6. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Directory Traversal Vulnerability
7. ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Insecure Directory Permissions
8. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Invalid "Content-Length:" Denial of Service
9. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Multiple Vulnerabilities
10. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Format String Vulnerability


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