National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1538

Overview

** DISPUTED ** McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5.0.i uses insecure permissions for certain Windows Registry keys, which allows local users to bypass local password protection via the UIP value in (1) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\McAfee\DesktopProtection or (2) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\TVD\VirusScan Entreprise\CurrentVersion. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by third-party researchers, stating that the default permissions for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE does not allow for write access and the product does not modify the inherited permissions. There might be an interaction error with another product.

Impact

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External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017791

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017791

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070319 RE: Bypassing Mcafee Entreprise Password Protection

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/463187/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070317 Re: Bypassing Mcafee Entreprise Password Protection

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/463091/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070317 Bypassing Mcafee Entreprise Password Protection

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/463074/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://homepage.mac.com/adonismac/Advisory/crack_mcafee_password_protection.html

Hyperlink:http://homepage.mac.com/adonismac/Advisory/crack_mcafee_password_protection.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://homepage.mac.com/adonismac/Advisory/bypass_mcafee_entreprise_password.html

Hyperlink:http://homepage.mac.com/adonismac/Advisory/bypass_mcafee_entreprise_password.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 33800

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/33800