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Title    McAfee Security Manager lets Anybody Bypass Managers' Security
Date    Wednesday December 09 2015, @01:28AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the what's-in-a-name? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/12/08/034244

"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?

Original Submission

Links
  1. "opens the keys to the kingdom of FAIL" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/07/mcafee_security_manager_lets_managers_bypass_security/
  2. "advisory states" - https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=contentid=SB10137actp=nullviewlocale=en_USshowDraft=falseplatinum_status=falselocale=en_US
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=11001
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