CVE-2018-6674CWE-269CWE-274

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

Medium · published May 25, 2018

CVSS v3.0
6.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
6.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00180 · 7.2th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management; CWE-274 · Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges
Published
2018-05-25T13:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 MAY 13:00Z
    Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee VSE when McTray run with elevated privileges
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