CVE-2016-8005: McAfee Email Gateway

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

File extension filtering vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) before 7.6.404h1128596 allows attackers to fail to identify the file name properly via scanning an email with a forged attached filename that uses a null byte within the filename extension.

Affected products

• McAfee Email Gateway: up to and including 7.6.401

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