Check Point Advisories

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator DataChannel GUID SQL Injection (CVE-2016-8027)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2017-0239
Date Published: 22 Mar 2017
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 24 April, 2017
Source: McAfee
Industry Reference:CVE-2016-8027
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator prior to 5.1.3
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator prior to 5.3.2
Vulnerability Description An SQL injection vulnerability exists in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation on the GUID parameter. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request to the affected server. Successful exploitation could result in injected SQL code being executed on the database, which could possibly lead to arbitrary code execution with database privileges.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator DataChannel GUID SQL Injection protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Security Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator DataChannel GUID SQL Injection

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