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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.8 Medium

CVE-2018-6674

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

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

McAfee, LLC VirusScan Enterprise (VSE)

  • 8.8 to < 8.8 Patch 13affected

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