ESET Antivirus CAB Scan Evasion

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38651

Synopsis

An antivirus application installed on the remote host is affected by a scan evasion vulnerability.

Description

The ESET antivirus application installed on the remote host is affected by a scan evasion vulnerability due to the virus definitions being out of date. In this case, the virus signature database file version of the installed antivirus product is prior to 4036. An attacker can exploit this, by embedding malicious code in a specially crafted CAB file, to evade detection by the scanning engine.

Solution

Update the ESET virus signature database file to version 4036 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38651

File Name: eset_cab_files_scan_evasion.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 4/30/2009

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2009

Reference Information

BID: 34764

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