CVE-2018-6705

McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux Privilege Escalation vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 2.3 Low
Published: Dec 12, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Feb 6, 2018

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	2.3 Low	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L	trellix

Weaknesses

CWE-377 Insecure Temporary File (CWE-377)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
McAfee Agent (MA) for LinuxMcAfee	5.5.0Affected 5.5.1Affected 5.0.0 to before 5.0.0*Affected 5.0.6 through 5.0.6Affected

References

106328vdb-entry
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10260

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