SB10193 - consumer and corporate products - Maliciously misconfigured registry vulnerability
Maliciously misconfigured registry vulnerability in all Microsoft Windows products in McAfee consumer and corporate products allows an administrator to inject arbitrary code into a debugged McAfee process via manipulation of registry parameters.
- Published
- Apr 3, 2018
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.5% · 42th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-74
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Action score
17
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 17 / 40 · 4.4 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.5%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 4.4
- CNA · trellix
- 5.0
- 0.6 point gap
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| mcafee | anti-virus plus | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:anti-virus_plus |
| mcafee | endpoint security | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:endpoint_security |
| mcafee | host intrusion prevention | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:host_intrusion_prevention |
| mcafee | internet security | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:internet_security |
| mcafee | total protection | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:total_protection |
| mcafee | virus scan enterprise | cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:virus_scan_enterprise |
| microsoft | windows | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- mcafee anti-virus plusall versions
- mcafee endpoint security10.2
- mcafee host intrusion preventionup to 8.0 inclusive
- mcafee host intrusion prevention8.0
- mcafee internet securityall versions
- mcafee total protectionall versions
- mcafee virus scan enterpriseup to 8.8 inclusive
- mcafee virus scan enterprise8.8
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (trellix). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
McAfee McAfee Anti-Virus Plus (AVP)
- 170329 and later · before 29 Mar 2017affected
McAfee McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS)
- 10.2 and later · before 10.2 DAT V3 DAT 2932.0affected
McAfee McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention (Host IPS)
- 8.0 and later · before 8.0 Patch 9 Hotfix 1188590affected
McAfee McAfee Internet Security (MIS)
- 170329 and later · before 29 Mar 2017affected
McAfee McAfee Total Protection (MTP)
- 170329 and later · before 29 Mar 2017affected
McAfee McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise (VSE)
- 8.8 and later · before 8.8 Patch 8/9 Hotfix 1187884affected
Same product
mcafee: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2019-3648Implicit loading of DLLs26Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- Administrator privileges are required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-74 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment VariablesCAPEC-10likelihood: High · High
- Server Side Include (SSI) InjectionCAPEC-101likelihood: High · High
- HTTP Request SplittingCAPEC-105likelihood: Medium · High
- Command Line Execution through SQL InjectionCAPEC-108likelihood: Low · Very High
- Double EncodingCAPEC-120likelihood: Low · Medium
- Subverting Environment Variable ValuesCAPEC-13likelihood: High · Very High
- Format String InjectionCAPEC-135likelihood: High · High
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer OverflowCAPEC-14likelihood: Medium · High
Noroxi analysis
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.