Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent
CVE-2022-0166

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

McAfee,LLC

Status
McAfee Agent for Windows
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 January 2022

What is CVE-2022-0166?

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the McAfee Agent prior to 5.7.5. McAfee Agent uses openssl.cnf during the build process to specify the OPENSSLDIR variable as a subdirectory within the installation directory. A low privilege user could have created subdirectories and executed arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by creating the appropriate pathway to the specifically created malicious openssl.cnf file.

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Affected Version(s)

McAfee Agent for Windows Windows < 5.7.5

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB1...
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https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/287178
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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