CVE-2015-8993: McAfee Cloud AV

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Malicious file execution vulnerability in Intel Security CloudAV (Beta) before 0.5.0.151.3 allows attackers to make the product momentarily vulnerable via executing preexisting specifically crafted malware during installation or uninstallation, but not during normal operation.

Affected products

• McAfee Cloud AV: affected versions not specified
• McAfee Security Scan Plus: affected versions not specified
• McAfee Security Webadvisor: version 3.7.2 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only

Published 2017-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.