McAfee VirusScan Enterprise < 8.8 Patch 7 Protected Resource Access Bypass (SB10151)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89940

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Synopsis

The antivirus application installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a security mechanism bypass vulnerability.

Description

The version of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 8.8 Patch 7. It is, therefore, affected by a flaw in its self-protection mechanism when applying rules to access settings, which are used to determine what applications and associated actions can be trusted. An attacker with Windows administrative privileges can exploit this flaw to control the trust settings and bypass access restrictions, allowing protected McAfee applications, including VSE, to be disabled or uninstalled.

Note that the attacker does not need to possess the management password to exploit this vulnerability.

Solution

Upgrade to McAfee VirusScan Enterprise version 8.8 Patch 7.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89940

File Name: mcafee_vse_sb10151.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 3/15/2016

Updated: 6/7/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3984

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise

Required KB Items: Antivirus/McAfee/installed

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3984

BID: 85958

MCAFEE-SB: SB10151

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