McAfee CMA 3.6.0.574 Management Agent frameworkservice.exe resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in McAfee CMA 3.6.0.574. The affected element is an unknown function of the file frameworkservice.exe of the component Management Agent. Such manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2008-1855. The attack can be executed remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in McAfee CMA 3.6.0.574 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file frameworkservice.exe of the component Management Agent. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

FrameworkService.exe in McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) 3.6.0.574 Patch 3 and earlier, as used by ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) and ProtectionPilot (PrP), allows remote attackers to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service (CMA Framework service crash) via a long invalid method in requests for the /spin//AVClient//AVClient.csp URI, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5274.

The bug was discovered 04/02/2008. The weakness was released 04/16/2008 by Mati Aharoni (Website). The advisory is available at knowledge.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-1855 since 04/16/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed in Python and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 42871 (McAfee Common Management Agent < 3.6.0.603 FrameworkService.exe AVClient DoS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115777 (McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator "FrameworkService.exe" Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 7 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 11500.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (41597), Exploit-DB (5343), Tenable (42871), SecurityFocus (BID 28573†) and OSVDB (44161†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 42871
Nessus Name: McAfee Common Management Agent < 3.6.0.603 FrameworkService.exe AVClient DoS
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: knowledge.mcafee.com
Researcher: Mati Aharoni
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-1855 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-1855
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-42026
X-Force: 41597
SecurityFocus: 28573 - McAfee Common Management Agent 'FrameworkService.exe' Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 29637
OSVDB: 44161 - McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) Framework Service Crafted Request Remote DoS
SecurityTracker: 1019794
Vulnerability Center: 18203 - McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) DoS in FrameworkService.exe, High
Vupen: ADV-2008-1122

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 17:00
Updated: 05/31/2025 21:51
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (74), 08/08/2019 16:36 (20), 10/20/2024 10:07 (16), 05/31/2025 21:51 (2)
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