Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
This is an older McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator issue where logged-in users could bypass intended access limits and view sensitive information from reporting panels they should not see. The available bundle does not provide a CVSS score, confirmed fix details, or evidence of active exploitation.
Executive priority
Treat this as a legacy management-platform exposure. It is not shown as actively exploited in the provided sources, but ePO can contain sensitive security and asset data, so remaining old instances should be remediated or retired.
Technical view
CVE-2012-4594 affects McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6.1 and earlier. The reported flaw is an authenticated access-control bypass involving console reporting panel identifiers, allowing sensitive information disclosure across arbitrary reporting panels. Public metadata does not include CWE, CVSS, or detailed remediation text.
Likely exposure
Exposure is likely limited to organizations still running McAfee ePO 4.6.1 or earlier, especially where many authenticated console users have access. The affected inventory data in the bundle is incomplete.
Exploitation context
The source bundle describes remote authenticated abuse, not unauthenticated compromise. It does not cite CISA KEV listing, public exploitation, exploit availability, or incident activity.
Researcher notes
Key gaps are absent CVSS, CWE, fix version, and exploit-status evidence in the bundle. Analysis should stay scoped to authenticated information disclosure in McAfee ePO 4.6.1 and earlier until vendor advisory details are reviewed.
Mitigation direction
- Identify any McAfee ePO 4.6.1 or earlier deployments.
- Review McAfee advisory SB10025 for vendor-approved remediation.
- Restrict ePO console access to trusted administrators only.
- Retire or isolate unsupported legacy ePO instances.
- Review reporting-panel permissions for least-privilege alignment.
Validation and detection
- Confirm deployed ePO versions across asset inventory.
- Check whether ePO is reachable beyond trusted management networks.
- Review user roles with reporting-panel access.
- Inspect logs for unusual report access by authenticated users.
- Verify remediation status against McAfee advisory SB10025.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10025CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- mcafee-epolicy-idvalue-info-disc(78132)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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