CVE-2000-0502

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Mcafee VirusScan 4.03 does not properly restrict access to the alert text file before it is sent to the Central Alert Server, which allows local users to modify alerts in an arbitrary fashion.

Mcafee VirusScan 4.03 does not properly restrict access to the alert text file before it is sent to the Central Alert Server, which allows local users to modify alerts in an arbitrary fashion.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2000-06-08 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

McAfee VirusScan 4.0.3

4.0.3

References

20000607 Mcafee Alerting DOS vulnerability

Vendor Advisory

6287

1326

Vendor Advisory

mcafee-alerting-dos(4641)

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