CVE-2018-6674

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
McAfee, LLCVirusScan Enterprise (VSE)8.8 < 8.8 Patch 13affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)
  • CWE-274: Privilege Escalation (CWE-274)
  • CWE-269: Data Leakage via Privilege Escalation (CWE-269)

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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