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High · 7.8 CVE-2022-0166 EUVD-2022-15374GHSA-gq64-xh72-gm28

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent

Published Jan 19, 2022 · Updated Aug 2, 2024 · Assigned by trellix

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
McAfee,LLC McAfee Agent for Windows unspecified – < 5.7.5 5.7.5

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