CVE-2002-2282: McAfee Virusscan

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

McAfee VirusScan 4.5.1, when the WebScanX.exe module is enabled, searches for particular DLLs from the user's home directory, even when browsing the local hard drive, which allows local users to run arbitrary code via malicious versions of those DLLs.

Affected products

• McAfee Virusscan: version 4.5.1 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.