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CVE-2005-3657
The ActiveX control in MCINSCTL.DLL for McAfee VirusScan Security Center does not use the IObjectSafetySiteLock API to restrict access to…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.3%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 279 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 1015390 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2005-3006 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20051220 McAfee Security Center MCINSCTL.DLL ActiveX Control File Overwrite (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 15986 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 18169 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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