McAfee Agent for Linux Privilege Escalation vulnerability
CVE-2018-6704

4.7MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Mcafee
Status
Mcafee Agent (ma) For Linux
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 December 2018

What is CVE-2018-6704?

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions.

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Affected Version(s)

McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux x86 5.5.0

McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux x86 5.5.1

McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux x86 5.0.0 < 5.0.0*

References

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

Score:
4.7
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

McAfee credits Andreas Dewald, ERNW Research GmbH (Germany) for discovery of this vulnerability
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