A vulnerability was found in McAfee Entercept Agent up to 2.4 on Windows and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Password). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Entercept Agent 2.5 agent for Windows, released before May 21, 2002, allows local administrative users to obtain the entercept agent password, which could allow the administrators to log on as the entercept_agent account and conceal their identity.

The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2002 by Arthur (Website). The advisory is shared at derkeiler.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-1875 since 06/29/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 2.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (9546) and SecurityFocus (BID 5206†).

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• McAfee

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• Entercept Agent

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• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4

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• commercial

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