CVE-2023-5444: CSRF in ePO leading to privilege escalation

Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

A Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability in ePolicy Orchestrator prior to 5.10.0 CP1 Update 2 allows a remote low privilege user to successfully add a new user with administrator privileges to the ePO server. This impacts the dashboard area of the user interface. To exploit this the attacker must change the HTTP payload post submission, prior to it reaching the ePO server.

Affected products

McAfee,LLC McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO): before 5.10.0; 5.10.0-service_pack_1_update, 5.10.0-service_pack_1_update_1, 5.10.0-update_1, 5.10.0-update_10, 5.10.0-update_11, 5.10.0-update_11_hotfix_1 (+13) — fixed in 5.10.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: McAfee,LLC McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 5.10.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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