CVE-2018-6693

Endpoint Security for Linux Threat Prevention (ENSLTP) privilege escalation vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.6 Medium
Published: Sep 18, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Feb 6, 2018

Description

An unprivileged user can delete arbitrary files on a Linux system running ENSLTP 10.5.1, 10.5.0, and 10.2.3 Hotfix 1246778 and earlier. By exploiting a time of check to time of use (TOCTOU) race condition during a specific scanning sequence, the unprivileged user is able to perform a privilege escalation to delete arbitrary files.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	5.6 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-363 Race Condition Enabling Link Following (CWE-363)
CWE-274 Privilege Escalation (CWE-274)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Endpoint Security for Linux Threat Prevention (ENSLTP)McAfee	10.5.0Affected 10.5.1 10.5.0Affected 10.2.3 Hotfix 1246778 through 10.2.3 Hotfix 1246778Affected

References

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10248

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