CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-7308

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Published: Apr 15, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information between McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update and McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI) servers using DNS allows a remote attacker to view the requests from ENS and responses from GTI over DNS. By gaining control of an intermediate DNS server or altering the network DNS configuration, it is possible for an attacker to intercept requests and send their own responses.

Weakness

The product transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Endpoint_security Mcafee * 10.6.1 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1 (including) 10.6.1 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-april_2020 (including) 10.6.1-april_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-december_2018 (including) 10.6.1-december_2018 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-december_2019 (including) 10.6.1-december_2019 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-february_2019 (including) 10.6.1-february_2019 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-february_2020 (including) 10.6.1-february_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-july_2019 (including) 10.6.1-july_2019 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-july_2020 (including) 10.6.1-july_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-may_2019 (including) 10.6.1-may_2019 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-november_2018 (including) 10.6.1-november_2018 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-november_2020 (including) 10.6.1-november_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-october_2019 (including) 10.6.1-october_2019 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.6.1-september_2020 (including) 10.6.1-september_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-february_2020 (including) 10.7.0-february_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-july_2020 (including) 10.7.0-july_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-november_2020 (including) 10.7.0-november_2020 (including)
Endpoint_security Mcafee 10.7.0-september_2020 (including) 10.7.0-september_2020 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References