Anti-virus application flagging PWHashDumpX64.exe as a vulnerability

Products

• Control Compliance Suite Standards Server
• Control Compliance Suite
• Control Compliance Suite Standards Database
• Control Compliance Suite Standards Module

Issue/Introduction

Control Compliance Suite (CCS)

Your anti-virus application is flagging the CCS file C:\Program Files (x86)\BindView\PWHashDump\PWHashDumpX64.exe file as a vulnerability and you want to know if this is file is needed in CCS scans.

Environment

CCS 12.6.x

CCS 12.7

Resolution

CCS uses multiple ways of getting information for the requested Ad hoc queries and checks listed in a standard, and some of those files may be flagged as vulnerabilities by different anti-virus and security applications.

See the following KB on the CCS paths that need to be excluded or whitelisted in your anti-virus and other applications so not to impact CCS when performing its scans.

What CCS directories to exclude or whitelist in the Anti-Virus application