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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2018-6674 EUVD-2018-18421GHSA-j2w2-mjcv-7rfm

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

Published May 25, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by trellix

Description

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).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8 – < 8.8 Patch 13 8.8 Patch 13

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