CVE-2014-9920: McAfee Application Control

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unauthorized execution of binary vulnerability in McAfee (now Intel Security) McAfee Application Control (MAC) 6.0.0 before hotfix 9726, 6.0.1 before hotfix 9068, 6.1.0 before hotfix 692, 6.1.1 before hotfix 399, 6.1.2 before hotfix 426, and 6.1.3 before hotfix 357 and earlier allows attackers to create a malformed Windows binary that is considered non-executable and is not protected through the whitelisting protection feature via a specific set of circumstances.

Affected products

• McAfee Application Control: version 6.0.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.1.0 only; version 6.1.1 only; version 6.1.2 only; version 6.1.3 only

Published 2017-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.