CVE-2005-3657

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The ActiveX control in MCINSCTL.DLL for McAfee VirusScan Security Center does not use the IObjectSafetySiteLock API to restrict access to required domains, which allows remote attackers to create or append to arbitrary files via the StartLog and AddLog methods in the MCINSTALL.McLog object.

The ActiveX control in MCINSCTL.DLL for McAfee VirusScan Security Center does not use the IObjectSafetySiteLock API to restrict access to required domains, which allows remote attackers to create or append to arbitrary files via the StartLog and AddLog methods in the MCINSTALL.McLog object.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-21 11:03:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-03-08 02:26:00

Affected Software

McAfee VirusScan Security Center

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 4.0

4.0

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 4.0.3

4.0.3

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 4.5

4.5

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 4.5.1

4.5.1

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 5.0

5.0

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 6.0

6.0

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 7.0

7.0

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 7.1

7.1

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 8.0

8.0

McAfee VirusScan Security Center 9.0

9.0

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