McAfee EEFF / FRP Predictable Salt

The software encryption tool McAfee Endpoint Encryption for Removable Media (EERM) which is part of the data protection software McAfee Endpoint Encryption for Files and Folders (EEFF) uses a static and thus predictable salt for generating password hashes using the password-based key derivation function 2 (PBKDF2). Due to the use of a predictable, hard-coded salt, it is possible for an attacker to precompute password candidates and thus to perform more efficient dictionary attacks against the password-based authentication with the use of rainbow tables (time-memory trade-off).