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CVE-2022-0166

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CVE-2022-0166

Published: Jan 19, 2022

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

McAfee,LLC

McAfee Agent for Windows

affected
unspecified - < 5.7.5

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

VU#287178
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_CERT-VN

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