EIP-2026-101040

PRE-CVE

McAfee Email Gateway (formerly IronMail) - Denial of Service

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-101040. PoCs published by Nahuel Grisolia.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This advisory describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability in McAfee Email Gateway (formerly IronMail) version 6.7.1, where an attacker with CLI access can execute a fork bomb to exhaust system resources due to insecure ulimit settings. The issue is patched in version 6.7.2 Hotfix 2.

Description

McAfee Email Gateway (formerly IronMail) - Denial of Service

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP
by Nahuel Grisolia · textdoshardware
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12093

This advisory describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability in McAfee Email Gateway (formerly IronMail) version 6.7.1, where an attacker with CLI access can execute a fork bomb to exhaust system resources due to insecure ulimit settings. The issue is patched in version 6.7.2 Hotfix 2.

Classification
Writeup 100%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: McAfee Email Gateway (formerly IronMail) ver.6.7.1
Auth required
Prerequisites: Local access to the CLI · Authenticated session
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026