Low severity · published May 25, 2018
CVE-2018-6674
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…
3.9
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 8% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VE
Virusscan Enterprise · Mcafee
8.8.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6674
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6674
kc.mcafee.com
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10237
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