McAfee Application Control and Change Control (MACC) - password management security feature bypass (SFB) leading to an authentication bypass

published 2018-09-18 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-13029

cvss: 4.4; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 35%
public exploits: 0; none known

Bypassing password security vulnerability in McAfee Application and Change Control (MACC) 7.0.1 and 6.2.0 allows authenticated users to perform arbitrary command execution via a command-line utility.

Exploit prediction

0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	4.4	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

McAfee McAfee Application Control and Change Control (MACC)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-274 Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges
CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-3912
NVD CVE-2017-3912

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Summary