CVE-2024-0311 Bypass the existing policy of Skyhigh Client Proxy without a valid release code

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Info

  • CVE : CVE-2024-0311
  • CVSS : 5.5 (MEDIUM)

Summary

  • McAfee Client Proxy has MCPBypass.exe which is its own policy bypass program.
  • McAfee Client Proxy has challenge/response protection steps before to allow bypass request from user.
  • The bypass program requests user to get a valid response code from system admin.
  • If user input a valid response code, the bypass program set its status to “Bypass active”.
  • if user fail to input a valid response code, the bypass program reject the request.
  • This Challenge/Response steps and IPC to MCPService are vulnerable to simple API hooking and can be bypassed with any release codes.