McAfee Antivirus Detection and Status

critical Nessus Plugin ID 12107

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Synopsis

An antivirus application is installed on the remote host, but it is not working properly.

Description

McAfee VirusScan, an antivirus application, is installed on the remote host. However, there is a problem with the installation; either its services are not running or its virus definitions are out of date.

Solution

Make sure that updates are working and the associated services are running.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 12107

File Name: mcafee_installed.nasl

Version: 1.1872

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 3/16/2004

Updated: 3/4/2025

Asset Inventory: true

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS Score Rationale: Score for product with out-of-date virus definitions

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

CVSS Score Source: manual

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise

Required KB Items: SMB/name, SMB/login, SMB/password, SMB/registry_full_access, SMB/transport

Reference Information

IAVT: 0001-T-0852

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