CVE-2006-3961
Buffer overflow in McSubMgr ActiveX control (mcsubmgr.dll) in McAfee Security Center 6.0.23 for Internet Security Suite 2006, Wireless…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 34.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in McSubMgr ActiveX control (mcsubmgr.dll) in McAfee Security Center 6.0.23 for Internet Security Suite 2006, Wireless Home Network Security, Personal Firewall Plus, VirusScan, Privacy Service, SpamKiller, AntiSpyware, and QuickClean allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via long string parameters, which are later used in vsprintf.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- McAfee Subscription Manager Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/mcafee_mcsubmgr_vsprintfRank normaldisclosed 1 Aug 2006
Exploit-DB1 entry
- McAfee Subscription Manager - Remote Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16510remote, windowspublished 3 Jul 2010Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 34.4% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References10
- 19265 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/20060719.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1016614 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20060807 [EEYEB-20060719] McAfee Subscription Manager Stack Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 27698 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3096 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD2006807.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://ts.mcafeehelp.com/faq3.asp?docid=407052 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 21264 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- VU#481212 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-3954 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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