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McAfee Security Manager lets Anybody Bypass Managers' Security

posted by martyb on Wednesday December 09 2015, @01:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-in-a-name? dept.

"exec" writes:

'Specially crafted username' opens the keys to the kingdom of FAIL:

Designated CVE-2015-8024, the bug covers "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", the advisory states.

So, you install a security product and that provides an open backdoor into your systems?

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday December 09 2015, @09:40AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday December 09 2015, @09:40AM (#273866) Homepage
    One of my favourite ways of ever-so-gently winding up annoying Americans is to call Arkansas "Arkansas", rather than "Arkansaw", and Connecticut "Connecticut", rather than "Conneticut". It can work on an individual for sometimes as long as 6 months before they can just shrug it off.
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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday December 10 2015, @06:33AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 10 2015, @06:33AM (#274292) Journal

    On the other hand, I find it is always a good idea to give precedence to native place names, and their native pronunciations. Oft I have heard that I am from "Saymous", or worse. Kansas and Arkansas are, of course, the names of the peoples who populated these places, before an unfortunate influx of illegal migrants.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday December 10 2015, @08:14AM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday December 10 2015, @08:14AM (#274334) Homepage
      My g/f does come from near "be-AT-riss", because the they forgot how to English. Were I to ever visit where her roots are, I would deliberately pronounce it "beer-triss" to wind them up.
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