CVE-2006-5156
Buffer overflow in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator before 3.5.0.720 and ProtectionPilot before 1.1.1.126 allows remote attackers to execute…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 74.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator before 3.5.0.720 and ProtectionPilot before 1.1.1.126 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a request to /spipe/pkg/ with a long source header.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/http/mcafee_epolicy_sourceRank averagedisclosed 17 Jul 2006
Exploit-DB2 entries
- McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot - Remote Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16783remote, windows_x86published 20 Sept 2010Verified
- McAfee ePo 3.5.0 / ProtectionPilot 1.1.0 - Source Remote (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 2467remote, windowspublished 1 Oct 2006Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 74.4% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References14
- http://www.remote-exploit.org/advisories/mcafee-epo.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1016970 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1016971 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- epolicy-source-header-bo(29307) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20288 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 29421 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://download.nai.com/products/patches/ePO/v3.5/EPO3506.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3861 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20061002 McAfee EPO Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://knowledge.mcafee.com/article/365/8611438_f.SAL_Public.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 22222 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=8611438&sliceId=SAL_Public&dialogID=2997768&stateId=0%200%202995803 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- VU#842452 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://download.nai.com/products/patches/protectionpilot/v1.1.1/PRP1113.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-5141 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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