CVE-2022-0166

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent

High · published January 19, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02945 · 87.0th percentile
Published
2022-01-19T11:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 11:05Z
    Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent
    cvelistv5