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McAfee Agent: CVE-2022-1256: Mcafee agent update fixes three vulnerabilities (SB10382)

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McAfee Agent: CVE-2022-1256: Mcafee agent update fixes three vulnerabilities (SB10382)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/14/2022
Created
05/17/2022
Added
05/16/2022
Modified
05/16/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • mcafee-agent-upgrade-5-7-6

References

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