CVE-2006-4886: McAfee Scan Engine

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VirusScan On-Access Scan component in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1.0 and Scan Engine 4.4.00 allows local privileged users to bypass security restrictions and disable the On-Access Scan option by opening the program via the task bar and quickly clicking the Disable button, possibly due to an interface-related race condition.

Affected products

  • McAfee Scan Engine: version 4.4.00 only
  • McAfee Virusscan Enterprise: version 7.1.0 only

Published 2006-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.