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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).

Published

2018-05-25T13:29:00.333

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:11:05.523

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.8 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

  • Access Vector: LOCAL
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: NONE
Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-264
    CWE-269
    CWE-274
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-311
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application mcafee virusscan_enterprise 8.8.0 Yes
Operating System microsoft windows - No
References