CVE-2012-5879
An ActiveX control in McHealthCheck.dll in McAfee Virtual Technician (MVT) and ePO-MVT 6.5.0.2101 and earlier allows remote attackers to…
- 8.2HighCVSS base score
- 5.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An ActiveX control in McHealthCheck.dll in McAfee Virtual Technician (MVT) and ePO-MVT 6.5.0.2101 and earlier allows remote attackers to modify or create arbitrary files via a full pathname argument to the Save method.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- McAfee Virtual Technician (MVT) 6.5.0.2101 - Insecure ActiveX Method (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24907remote, windowspublished 29 Mar 2013Not verified
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
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | High8.2 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.2% · top 7.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10040 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1028357 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20130327 McAfee Virtual Technician ActiveX Control Insecure Method (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 91700 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 58750 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23128 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2012-5757 (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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