CVE-2021-23896: McAfee Database Security

Medium severity, CVSS 4.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information vulnerability in the administrator interface of McAfee Database Security (DBSec) prior to 4.8.2 allows an administrator to view the unencrypted password of the McAfee Insights Server used to pass data to the Insights Server. This user is restricted to only have access to DBSec data in the Insights Server.

Affected products

• McAfee Database Security: before 4.8.2 (fixed in 4.8.2)

Published 2021-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.