CVE-2009-5116: McAfee Linuxshield

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

McAfee LinuxShield 1.5.1 and earlier does not properly implement client authentication, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain Admin access to the statistics server by leveraging a client account.

Affected products

• McAfee Linuxshield: up to and including 1.5.1; version 1.5 only

Published 2012-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.