Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2006-5156 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator before 3.5.0.720 and ProtectionPilot before 1.1.1.126 allows remote attackers to execute arb…

published 2006-10-03 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5141

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
74.4%
EPSS 74.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator before 3.5.0.720 and ProtectionPilot before 1.1.1.126 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a request to /spipe/pkg/ with a long source header.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/http/mcafee_epolicy_source)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

74.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/http/mcafee_epolicy_source McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Overflow metasploit exploit, average rank, 2006-07-17
  • EDB-16783 McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot - Remote Overflow (Metasploit) remote, 2010-09-20
  • EDB-2467 McAfee ePo 3.5.0 / ProtectionPilot 1.1.0 - Source Remote (Metasploit) remote, 2006-10-01
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20288 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • remote-exploit.org http://www.remote-exploit.org/advisories/mcafee-epo.pdf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.