McAfee Antivirus information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in McAfee Antivirus. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes information disclosure. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. You should change the configuration settings.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee Antivirus (Anti-Malware Software) (affected version not known). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 01/01/2004. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 12107 (McAfee Antivirus Detection and Status), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by applying the configuration setting .

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (12107) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-4381†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

Anti-Malware Software

Vendor

McAfee

Name

Antivirus

License

commercial

Website

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

CPE 2.3info

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.7

VulDB Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Temp Score: 9.7
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CVSSv2info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 12107
Nessus Name: McAfee Antivirus Detection and Status
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Config
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Timelineinfo

01/01/2004 🔍
01/01/2004 +0 days 🔍
03/16/2004 +75 days 🔍
06/01/2004 +77 days 🔍
07/17/2016 +4429 days 🔍
09/05/2022 +2241 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Status: Not defined

GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-89539
Vulnerability Center: 4381 - McAfee Antivirus is Installed, Info

Entryinfo

Created: 07/17/2016 09:59
Updated: 09/05/2022 09:01
Changes: 07/17/2016 09:59 (38), 02/28/2019 10:49 (8), 09/05/2022 09:01 (1)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

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