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McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and 8.7i does not properly interact with the processing of hcp:// URLs by the Microsoft Help and Support Center, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malware that is correctly detected by this product, but with a detection approach that occurs too late to stop the code execution

Published Aug 22, 2012

Description

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and 8.7i does not properly interact with the processing of hcp:// URLs by the Microsoft Help and Support Center, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malware that is correctly detected by this product, but with a detection approach that occurs too late to stop the code execution.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 22, 2012
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Sep 24, 2010
Link CVE-2010-3496
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2010-3496
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2010-3496