CVE-2016-8023: McAfee Virusscan Enterprise

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 9.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Authentication bypass by assumed-immutable data vulnerability in Intel Security VirusScan Enterprise Linux (VSEL) 2.0.3 (and earlier) allows remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass server authentication via a crafted authentication cookie.

Affected products

• McAfee Virusscan Enterprise: up to and including 2.0.3

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