CVE-2019-3586 HIGH

CVE-2019-3586: McAfee Endpoint Security firewall not always acting on GTI lookup results

Vendor Mcafee, Llc
Product McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)
Weakness CWE-693
Published May 15, 2019
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Protection Mechanism Failure in the Firewall in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) 10.x prior to 10.6.1 May 2019 update allows context-dependent attackers to circumvent ENS protection where GTI flagged IP addresses are not blocked by the ENS Firewall via specially crafted malicious sites where the GTI reputation is carefully manipulated and does not correctly trigger the ENS Firewall to block the connection.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 15, 2019 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated