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ESET Anti-Virus Bypass CAB Scanning

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5009

Synopsis

The remote host is Missing a critical security patch or upgrade

Description

The remote client is running the ESET Anti-virus engine.

This version of ESET is vulnerable to a flaw wherein attackers can bypass the scan engine by submitting files within specially formatted 'CAB' archives. An attacker, exploiting this flaw, would be able to pass malicious code through the scan engine.

Solution

Upgrade to ESET update 4036 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5009

Family: Web Clients

Published: 8/18/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Reference Information

BID: 34764