CVE-2022-1256CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management in McAfee Agent for Windows

High · published April 14, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in MA for Windows prior to 5.7.6 allows a local low privileged user to gain system privileges through running the repair functionality. Temporary file actions were performed on the local user's %TEMP% directory with System privileges through manipulation of symbolic links.

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
0.00260 · 16.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2022-04-14T13:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 APR 13:45Z
    Improper Privilege Management in McAfee Agent for Windows
    cvelistv5