McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Patch 2 Access Protection privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Patch 2 and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component Access Protection. The manipulation leads to privileges management. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Patch 2 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Access Protection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 02/26/2013 as SB10038 as confirmed knowledge base article (Website). The advisory is shared at kc.mcafee.com. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at OSVDB (90611†), Secunia (SA52386†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1028209†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

Anti-Malware Software

Vendor

McAfee

Name

VirusScan Enterprise

Version

8.8 Patch 2

License

commercial

Website

Vendor: https://www.mcafee.com/

CPE 2.3info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0

VulDB Base Score: 8.4
VulDB Temp Score: 8.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Timelineinfo

02/26/2013 🔍
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02/27/2013 +1 days 🔍
05/04/2018 +1892 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: SB10038
Status: Confirmed

GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-7829
Secunia: 52386 - McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 90611
SecurityTracker: 1028209

Entryinfo

Created: 02/27/2013 10:38
Updated: 05/04/2018 09:04
Changes: 02/27/2013 10:38 (49), 05/04/2018 09:04 (1)
Complete: 🔍
Committer: olku
Cache ID: 216::103

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