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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2015, @02:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2015, @02:50PM (#273951)

    ...open keys. One uses keys to open doors. Kingdom of FAIL indeed. (Specifically the Duchy of Fucked Up Analogies)