CVE•Published 2017-03-14•Modified 2026-05-13•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2015-8989Mcafee · Vulnerability_manager

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-310

Description

Unsalted password vulnerability in the Enterprise Manager (web portal) component in Intel Security McAfee Vulnerability Manager (MVM) 7.5.8 and earlier allows attackers to more easily decrypt user passwords via brute force attacks against the database.

Timeline

Published 2017-03-14

Modified 2026-05-13

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2015-8989

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · product

product:"Mcafee Vulnerability Manager"

All exposed Mcafee Vulnerability Manager instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.

Shodan · banner/body mention

http.html:"Vulnerability Manager"

HTTP body or banner mentions "Vulnerability Manager" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2015-8989