CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-3657

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-12-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

Affected configurations

• mcafee mcinsctl.dll 4.0.0.83 • mcafee virusscan security center • mcafee virusscan security center 4.0 • mcafee virusscan security center 4.0.3 • mcafee virusscan security center 4.5 • mcafee virusscan security center 4.5.1 • mcafee virusscan security center 5.0 • mcafee virusscan security center 6.0 • mcafee virusscan security center 7.0 • mcafee virusscan security center 7.1 • mcafee virusscan security center 8.0 • mcafee virusscan security center 9.0

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