McAfee Next Generation Firewall OpenSSL Information Disclosure (SB10071) (Heartbleed)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73835

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

The remote host is running a version of McAfee Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) that is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability due to a flaw in the OpenSSL library, commonly known as the Heartbleed bug. An attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability repeatedly to read up to 64KB of memory from the device.

Solution

Apply the relevant hotfix referenced in the vendor advisory.

See Also

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10071

http://www.heartbleed.com

https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140

https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2014-0160

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20140407.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73835

File Name: mcafee_ngfw_SB10071.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Family: Misc.

Published: 5/2/2014

Updated: 4/25/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0160

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:ngfw

Required KB Items: Host/McAfeeNGFW/version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2014

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/25/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0160

BID: 66690

CERT: 720951

MCAFEE-SB: SB10071