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McAfee VirusScan Enterprise < 8.8 Patch 16 Access Control Bypass Vulnerability (SB10338)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144450

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Synopsis

The antivirus application installed on the remote Windows host is affected by an access control bypass vulnerability.

Description

The version of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 8.8 Patch 16. It is, therefore, affected by an access control bypass vulnerability which allows local administrators the ability to bypass local security protections by carefully manipulating the code integrity checks associated with the windows defender integration.

Solution

Upgrade to McAfee VirusScan Enterprise version 8.8 Patch 16.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0ef336c3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144450

File Name: mcafee_vse_sb10338.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 12/18/2020

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7337

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise

Required KB Items: Antivirus/McAfee/installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7337

IAVA: 2020-A-0580

MCAFEE-SB: SB10338