Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges
CVE-2018-6674

6.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Mcafee, Llc

Status
Virusscan Enterprise (vse)
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 May 2018

What is CVE-2018-6674?

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).

Affected Version(s)

VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) Windows 8.8 < 8.8 Patch 13

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB1...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.8
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Physical
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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