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CVE-2009-5116

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-5116 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in McAfee LinuxShield versions 1.5.1 and earlier, allowing remote authenticated users to gain administrative access to the statistics server. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a medium severity, and allows for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:linuxshield:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:linuxshield:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.5MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0163 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

kc.mcafee.com / corporate/index
Vendor Advisory