Bypassing Mcafee Entreprise Password Protection
Date : 03/16/2007
URL:
http://homepage.mac.com/adonismac/Advisory/bypass_mcafee_entreprise_password.html
Affected Product / OS
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Product Name and Version: McAfee VirusScan Entreprise 8.5.0.i maybe older
version too.
Tested on OS: Windows XP, 2003
Bug Type
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Type: Bad Design
Bug Results
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Bypass Password Protection
Bug Description
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Mcafee virusscan Enterprise version allow you to lock the user interface using
a password. A user write access windows registry.
The password is saved in UIP under the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\McAfee\DesktopProtection
Or it can be under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\TVD\VirusScan
Entreprise\CurrentVersion
If you remove the value of the UIP you will end up bypassing the password.
You can replace the value if you wish too with a known value, but why bother
when you can remove the password.
I think this type of protection is not too secure.
Proof-Of-Concept
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http://homepage.mac.com/adonismac/Advisory/crack_mcafee_password_protection.html
Peace to you all