CVE-2018-6674

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges

Published: May 25, 2018Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-264

6.8MEDIUM

Description

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client (McTray.exe) in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 prior to Patch 13 allows local users to spawn unrelated processes with elevated privileges via the system administrator granting McTray.exe elevated privileges (by default it runs with the current user's privileges).

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:PAttack Vector

Physical

AC:HAttack Complexity

High

PR:HPrivileges Required

High

UI:RUser Interaction

Required

Scope

S:CScope

Changed

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-264 CWE-269 CWE-274 CWE-311

Affected Products

McAfee, LLC

commercial·USaka mcafee, mcafee endpoint security (ens), mcaee, mcafee security, mcafee agent (ma), mcafee enterprise security manager (esm)

VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)

commercial·USaka mcafee

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise

Security Products

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Collection

Privilege Escalation

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References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237

kc.mcafee.com

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237&actp=null&viewlocale=en_US&showDraft=false&platinum_status=false&locale=en_GB

kc.mcafee.com

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6674

nvd.nist.gov

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