CVE-2016-8005

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.7%

Medium (6.5) in mcafee email gateway. 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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-264
Published: 2017-03-14
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mcafee:email_gateway

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10161
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10161

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