Vulnerability in Mcafee Virusscan

CVE-2000-0502

Mcafee VirusScan 4.03 does not properly restrict access to the alert text file before it is sent to the Central Alert Server, which allows local users to modify alerts in an arbitrary fashion.

EPSS: 0.004 (33.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mcafee Virusscan — versions 4.0.3
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)