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CVE-2005-3657

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
21/12/2005
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:mcinsctl.dll:4.0.0.83:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:4.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virusscan_security_center:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools