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CVE-2016-8005

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Intel McAfee Email Gateway (MEG): through 7.6.401

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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