Critical severity · published Dec 11, 2018
CVE-2018-6703
Use After Free in Remote logging (which is disabled by default) in McAfee McAfee Agent (MA) 5.x prior to 5.6.0 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial of Service…
9.8
CVSS
3.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Use After Free in Remote logging (which is disabled by default) in McAfee McAfee Agent (MA) 5.x prior to 5.6.0 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial of Service and potentially a remote code execution via a specially crafted HTTP header sent to the logging service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.2% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AG
Agent · Mcafee
5.0.0 before 5.6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6703
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6703
kc.mcafee.com
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10258
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