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CVE-2020-7292 (GCVE-0-2020-7292)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-15 14:50 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:25
VLAI
Title
Web Gateway (MWG) - Inappropriate Encoding for output context
Summary
Inappropriate Encoding for output context vulnerability in McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) prior to 9.2.1 allows a remote attacker to cause MWG to return an ambiguous redirect response via getting a user to click on a malicious URL.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-838 - Inappropriate Encoding for output context
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
McAfee McAfee Web Gateway (MWG) Affected: unspecified , < 9.2.1 (custom)
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