CVE-2015-0922
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) before 4.6.9 and 5.x before 5.1.2 uses the same secret key across different customers' installations,…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 13.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) before 4.6.9 and 5.x before 5.1.2 uses the same secret key across different customers' installations, which allows attackers to obtain the administrator password by leveraging knowledge of the encrypted password.
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 for it.
Show the exploits1
Metasploit modules1 module
- McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Authenticated XXE Credentials Exposure (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/gather/mcafee_epo_xxeRank normaldisclosed 6 Jan 2015
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
- 10 years later
· 10 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.3% · top 3.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 72298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20150112 Re: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Authenticated XXE and Credential Exposure (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10095 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129827/McAfee-ePolicy-Orchestrator-Authenticated-XXE-Credential-Exposure.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150106 McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Authenticated XXE and Credential Exposure (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- macafee-cve20150922-info-disc(99949) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1031519 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://gist.github.com/brandonprry/692e553975bf29aeaf2c (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-2015-0930 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-0922)Record last updated .