CVE-2022-0166: high-severity vulnerability in McAfee Agent for Windows
Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 2.9%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
McAfee,LLC · McAfee Agent for WindowsRelated CVEs — McAfee Agent for Windows
In the same product, most dangerous first.
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